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Photo Gallery: Cretaceous Period

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Computer models show how a massive Triceratops likely walked. The sequence, which used digital scans of an actual fossil skeleton, was part of a 2001 million-dollar project by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to accurately remount its nearly 100-year-old Triceratops specimen. Image by Smithsonian Institution/Photo Researchers, Inc.