Mammals vs. dinosaurs

Were dinosaurs really the most exciting and interesting creatures ever to roam the planet? Zoologist Nick Crumpton tells the Cambridge Science Festival that it's high time other prehistoric animals stepped out from the shadows. It's time to pay more attention to all the other incredible creatures that lived before the time of the dinosaurs, during it, and after they were gone. Nick Crumpton Dinosaurs, as every schoolchild knows, were not just the most terrifying creatures ever to roam the Earth, but also the most exciting, and therefore the best. The peak of their golden age was one in which monstrous reptiles and carnivorous predators stalked the planet. True, not all of them were as big as houses, but some could grow up to 150 feet in length and more than 30 feet high. And the fiercest of the lot had no equal. Megaraptors, for example, possessed huge, sickle-like claws and powerful jaws with serrated teeth.