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How Are 2,000 Helpers Restoring a Giant Ancient Predator Skeleton? 🦖

More than two thousand volunteers are carefully putting together the huge bones of an ancient animal.

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Over 2,000 volunteers are involved.

They are restoring a massive skeleton.

The creature is Mastodonsaurus, a prehistoric predator.

It lived 240 million years ago in the Triassic era.

It hunted fish and small amphibians in water.

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The animal, named Mastodonsaurus, lived about 240 million years ago during the Middle Triassic period.

It was a water hunter that caught fish and small amphibians by surprise.

Scientists and volunteers work together to finish the giant puzzle and learn about the past.

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volunteers

people who give their time to help

painstaking

very careful and takes a lot of effort

restore

to fix and put back together

massive

very big

skeleton

the bones of an animal

prehistoric

from a time before written history

predator

an animal that hunts other animals

Mastodonsaurus

a huge ancient animal that lived in water

Triassic

a very old time period millions of years ago

ambush

to hide and surprise the food

amphibians

animals like frogs that can live in water and on land

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