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Brontosaurus was a gigantic, plant-eating dinosaur. Scientists thought it might actually be the same genus as Apatosaurus, but a 2015 study says that the two are different.
Crude oil forms from algae, bacteria and sea creatures that sink to the seafloor and are fossilised.
Coal is mostly made of carbon, which is why it releases lots of carbon dioxide when it’s burned.
Dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Ediacarans are the earliest complex lifeforms that we have discovered. They come in a range of shapes, from fronds to tubes and even some that look like inflatable mattresses!
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