Paleontology
Popular myths about dinosaurs
By: Juliannah Jamarin
Dinosaurs have long been the subject of many myths. The prehistoric creatures have sparked fear and wonderment in many. Since dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, people can only rely on archeologist's studies and findings for our information on dinosaurs.Many people think...
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How are fossils formed?
By: Joseph Malek
A fossil is an impression of an object or a living thing that existed on the Earth more than 10,000 years ago. They can be footprints, molds of plants and/or animals and parts thereof. They can even be the bones and other solid parts...
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What did dinosaurs eat?
By: Brenda Nelson
For over 160 million years Dinosaurs walked the planet, eating and being eaten in a role of survival that has existed since life began. Dinosaurs were huge, they had to eat, and they had to eat a lot, but just what (or who) did they...
Types of climates that dinosaurs lived in
By: Brenda Nelson
Dinosaurs lived for roughly 160 million years, when we think about the climate they lived in, we often assume it was either hot and dry, or hot and muggy. In fact it was both, depending on which era we are referring to. Over the course...
What was the first discovery of dinosaur remains?
By: James Johnson
What was the first discovery of dinosaur remains? Does anyone really know? The answer to both questions depends upon how one defines discovery, defines remains and who you ask. Was it a discovery when primitive man encountered big bones in Asia or in the Badlands...
Which of today's animals lived alongside dinosaurs?
By: Juliannah Jamarin
It is hard to believe but there are a few remaining animals that actually roamed the earth with the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs lived on earth during the Mesozoic Era. This era was divided into three periods: the Triassic, the Jurassic and Cretaceous. The entire Mesozoic...
Theories on how dinosaurs became extinct
By: Michelle H
God, asteroids and volcanoes. What do those three items have in common? They are all three forces believed to have caused the extinction of dinosaurs. While there are many theories, no one knows for sure exactly what happened. Just as there are two sides to...
Famous dinosaur fossil hunters
By: Joseph Malek
In regard to the development of the science of paleontology, Baron Cuvier is credited as being the first person to devise a systematic method of the classification of the various forms of animals about 1796. In so doing he collected fossils of long dead creatures...
Theories on how dinosaurs became extinct
By: Joseph Malek
There are four major theories about the eventual extinction of those animals that we refer to as being dinosaurs. Such extinction theories include a natural disaster, a change of the World's climate or a disease, and it is also possible that some of those dinosaurs...
The history of dinosaur discovery
By: Joseph Malek
As far back as the 5th Century B.C., Herodotus wrote about the discovery of griffins. Those creatures were part eagle and part lion, and were apparently guarding their eggs in Central Asia. Here we have the earliest written evidence of the discovery of dinosaur...
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