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The Mesozoic Era
Colegio Dr. Roque Diaz Tizol
Yabucoa, P.R.

The Mesozoic era

Bilogy Class
Mr. Kim
10th grade
1 /27/ 14

Introduction

In this report I will be explaining a few facts about the Mesozoic era coming from the documentary “The day the Mesozoic Died”. This small film expresses how in many ways these creatures once inhabited our planet and disappeared completely in almost a blink of an eye. The Mesozoic Era could also be described simply as what most of our population knows as the Dinosaur Era.
These creatures once dominated our lands with tremendous sizes, shapes and species and although humans were never able to see one in person, there are many ways in which our scientists and geologists have found to identify what they looked like and how they behaved. Thanks to their effort, we can now understand the tremendous creatures who lived before us and assume theories as well as research to find out why and how they were completely wiped out our planet one day.

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The disappearance of dinosaurs is considered a mystery for many reasons. We as humans have no live proof of what really happened that day the Mesozoic left the world. There are many theories as to what could’ve happened. On the other hand, the most common one could be derived from the information found by geologists all over the world discovering unusual patterns on the rocks and mountains of certain places.
Within the discoveries found all around the world scientists have found a few rare chemical elements in the process of the search. Some of the chemical elements included were the iridium, cosmic space dust, the isotope plutonium 244 and sulfur as well. Currently, the main suspect behind this

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