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    225 million years ago‚ dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Raptors‚ such as the Velociraptor‚ made known by Jurassic Park‚ were one species of the many dinosaurs that roamed the Earth. Through many films‚ these creatures are portrayed as intelligent‚ savage beasts. However‚ studies may have proved these films wrong. They have shown that there are more types of raptors than the Velociraptor‚ different ways that they hunted their prey‚ and if and how they were able to communicate. Scientists have shown that

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    Question 1 2 English GCSE

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    Read Source 1‚ the online travel article called Rafting on the Grand Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde. 1) What do you learn from Elisabeth Hyde’s article about where she has been and what she has been doing? From the article‚ we learn that Elisabeth Hyde went rafting on a ’13 day‚ 225-mile trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.’ She describes the trip as a ‘Disneyland’ like experience with ’a white-knuckle‚ roller-coaster ride’. Hyde also comments on how she found it quite scary but ‘exhilarating’

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    causing a lot more construction in the area. During this time of construction‚ it was very common for them to uncover dinosaur bones. In fact‚ a T-Rex skeleton was found in a suburb of Denver. However‚ they do not consider this their greatest find in this area. They managed to come across a serrated tooth. This was the prize fossil at the site. In 1994‚ they came across a dinosaur rib while building the Colorado Rockies stadium. Data gathering‚ depiction‚ and analysis of this area has made it possible

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    Tyrannosaurus rex

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    (23 cm) long. T. Rex Dung has been found containing crushed bone - its teeth were capable of inflicting an enormous amount of damage on other creature). Diapsids are animals that have two extra holes in the sides of their skulls. Like all other dinosaurs‚ T. rex walked on its toes. There is a pad of tissue on the back of the feet on these animals that acts like a shock absorber. People‚ bears‚ and crocodiles walk differently they are flat-footed. T. rex had three clawed toes on each foot and one

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    The Mesozoic Era

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    The Age of the Dinosaur is the Mesozoic era. Its’ geological time lasted from 180 million years ago (MA) from 250 MA to 65 MA. The Mesozoic era began after the end of the Permian extinction. It has been estimated that the Permian extinction wiped out approximately 95% of marine life and about 70% of all other species on the plant. The Mesozoic era consists of three geological time periods Triassic‚ Jurassic and Cretaceous. In the era of Mesozoic period the earth’s continents were a supercontinent

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    Megalosaurus Essay

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    species of animals similar to the Megalosaurus and the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London where Buckland first published his discovery “became the leading journal in which studies on British dinosaurs were published. A remarkable 35 dinosaur taxa‚ representing 32% of the 108 dinosaurs that we recognize as valid or as nomina dubia‚ have been named in Society

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    Diplodocus is the longest and in fact the largest known to science terrestrial dinosaurs whose complete skeletons have ever been found. In appearance‚ it resembled a lizard brontosaurus‚ but Diplodocus differed from it by a thin S-shaped neck and a long tail with a thin shout end. The first remains of Diplodocus‚ in particular its tail and hind limb bones‚ were discovered in 1877 by Samuel Williston near the town of Canyon City‚ Colorado‚ USA. According to him‚ Otniel Charles Marsh described the

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    Jurassic Park

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    Jurassic Park is a book about the cloning of dinosaurs and they are used as the park entertainment on an island. In this park where dinosaurs are the attraction‚ not every thing will go as planned . Reading this book will teach someone how Michael Crichton feels about biological science and the cloning of extinct animals. There are things that caused the park to be unsuccessful. Dr. Malcolm and Dennis Nedry where two of the parks problems‚ and the other was the nature of the animals. Dr.

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    television are not the only factor that affects children; commercials also have a strong affect on children. For the two hours of pre-schooled center programming‚ I watched one episode of Max and Ruby on Nickelodeon and one episode each of Word World‚ Dinosaur Train‚ and Daniel Tigers Neighborhood on PBS. All four shows had an educational view‚ whether it be improving spelling‚ developing empathy‚ or the positives of using teamwork. All four shows aimed to better the viewers in some way‚ and they did this

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    Week One

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    Week One Critical and Creative Thinking Questions Chapter 1 1. How do you think the principle of uniformitarianism accounts for occasional catastrophic events such as meteorite impacts‚ huge volcanic eruptions‚ or great earthquakes? Uniformitarianism and catastrophic events go hand and hand‚ uniformitarianism is the earth continuing to change due to natural processes‚ those natural processes would be catastrophic events. Technology is rapidly progressing‚ the detection of catastrophic events can

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