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    Dinosaurs exhibited wide variation in taxonomy, morphology, and ecology. Paleontologists have identified over 900 dinosaur genera and 1000 species. While dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal, many groups included quadrupedal species or could shift stances. Evidence suggests dinosaurs were active, possibly warm-blooded animals with adaptations for social interaction and that all were egg-laying. The largest sauropod dinosaurs could reach over 39 meters in length, dwarfing even the largest living land animals today.

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    Dinosaurs exhibited wide variation in taxonomy, morphology, and ecology. Paleontologists have identified over 900 dinosaur genera and 1000 species. While dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal, many groups included quadrupedal species or could shift stances. Evidence suggests dinosaurs were active, possibly warm-blooded animals with adaptations for social interaction and that all were egg-laying. The largest sauropod dinosaurs could reach over 39 meters in length, dwarfing even the largest living land animals today.

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    Dinosaurs exhibited wide variation in taxonomy, morphology, and ecology. Paleontologists have identified over 900 dinosaur genera and 1000 species. While dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal, many groups included quadrupedal species or could shift stances. Evidence suggests dinosaurs were active, possibly warm-blooded animals with adaptations for social interaction and that all were egg-laying. The largest sauropod dinosaurs could reach over 39 meters in length, dwarfing even the largest living land animals today.

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    Rawrabels Dinosaurs are varied from taxonomic, morphological and ecological standpoints.

    Birds, at
    over 10,700 living species, are among the most diverse group of vertebrates. Using fossil evidence,
    paleontologists have identified over 900 distinct genera and more than 1,000 different species of non-
    avian dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are represented on every continent by both extant species (birds) and fossil
    remains. Through the first half of the 20th century, before birds were recognized as dinosaurs, most of
    the scientific community believed dinosaurs to have been sluggish and cold-blooded. Most research
    conducted since the 1970s, however, has indicated that dinosaurs were active animals with elevated
    metabolisms and numerous adaptations for social interaction. Some were herbivorous, others
    carnivorous. Evidence suggests that all dinosaurs were egg-laying, and that nest-building was a trait
    shared by many dinosaurs, both avian and non-avian.

    While dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal, many extinct groups included quadrupedal species, and some
    were able to shift between these stances. Elaborate display structures such as horns or crests are
    common to all dinosaur groups, and some extinct groups developed skeletal modifications such as bony
    armor and spines. While the dinosaurs' modern-day surviving avian lineage (birds) are generally small
    due to the constraints of flight, many prehistoric dinosaurs (non-avian and avian) were large-bodied—
    the largest sauropod dinosaurs are estimated to have reached lengths of 39.7 meters (130 feet) and
    heights of 18 m (59 ft) and were the largest land animals of all time. The misconception that non-avian
    dinosaurs were uniformly gigantic is based in part on preservation bias, as large, sturdy bones are more
    likely to last until they are fossilized. Many dinosaurs were quite small, some measuring about 50
    centimeters (20 inches) in length.

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