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APRIL FOOLS!

You KNEW this was an April Fools Day gag, we can’t pull one over on you. Although, we must admit, a Dino Cam would be pretty sweet.

Living Dinosaurs

The Nile monitor lizards in Africa are descendants of the dinosaurs Mosasaurs, the giant, aquatic lizard from the Cretaceous period (seen below). The Nile monitors possess an unparalleled reputation for fierceness and seldom back down from a challenge—not even from crocodiles. 

Darwin’s finches

Darwin’s finches may have started the bird beak evolution theories, but new ideas are running wild today; From the size of bills relating to the weather (hotter = bigger, colder = smaller to need less where there is less) to the roots of it all and the development of beaks in dinosaurs. Did You Know?