Summary
The final episode tours late-Cretaceous North America, where Tyrannosaurus rex and the towering flying reptile Quetzalcoatlus share a landscape and compete for food and space. It draws the series together, showing how the last dinosaurs lived in the moments before the great extinction. A strong closing look at an ecosystem and the animals competing within it.
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T. rex hunts and feeds and rival animals compete -- some meat and blood shown briefly; preview first.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
"North America" shows the last dinosaurs sharing one crowded habitat.
- What do Tyrannosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus both need, and how does that lead to competition?
- What does it mean for two animals to compete for resources?
- Scientists reconstruct these animals from fossils. What is one thing the series taught you that fossils can reveal?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: compete, resource, habitat, fossil, extinction.
Try it: List two resources animals in the episode compete for. Circle the one you think is hardest to share.