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Dinosaurs
While eating ferns around a waterhole, a stegosaurus and a triceratops come
under attack from two ferocious carnivores, a pair of tyrannosaurus rex. Though
the stegosaurus has defensive, triangular plates rising up along its spine, and the
triceratops has three horns sprouting from its head, the two herbivores are young
and small. Their defences will not withstand the size, strength and teeth of the
carnivores. To survive, the herbivores flee. The desperate stegosaurus sees a cave
in a nearby cliff face and runs towards it. The triceratops follows; but so does one
of the tyrannosaurs! The carnivore arrives first and stands roaring beside the cave.
Single-mindedly, the stegosaurus scampers in front of it to reach the cave. Neither
notices a nest of sticks, holding two huge eggs, on a ledge above the cave. In the
sky above the valley, two pterodactyls flap quickly towards the nest. Meanwhile,
in the waterhole, an apatosaurus, showing only its head and neck out from the
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water, watches the fleeing herbivores. Behind it, at the water’s edge, the second
tyrannosaur stands snarling angrily. Suddenly, a volcano in the far mountains
erupts! Ash billows skyward.
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