The Wonders of Paleontology 1 The Wonders of Paleontology Kennedy Ligon Biology‚ Period 6 The Wonders of Paleontology 2 As time presses on‚ more discoveries are being made everywhere around us. Several new things are being found‚ including the new findings of Paleontology. While we’re still finding things on our own planet‚ Earth‚ Paleontologists are clearing the gap one discovery at a time. With the amazing feats they’ve accomplished‚ all corners of the Earth’s land will soon be completely
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\sdbsdv \kdbsnvkds kjdvj sdlkj sdkj Brachiosaurus /ˌbrækiəˈsɔrəs/ is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. It was first described by Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Grand River Canyon (now Colorado River) of western Colorado‚ in the United States. Riggs named the dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax‚ declaring it "the largest known dinosaur". Brachiosaurus had a proportionally long neck‚ small skull‚ and large overall size‚ all of which
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Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtianstage of the Late Cretaceous Period‚ around 68 to 65 million years ago (Mya) in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.[1] The term Triceratops‚ which literally means "three-horned face‚" is derived from the Greek τρί- (tri-) meaning "three"‚ κέρας (kéras) meaning "horn"‚ and ὤψ (ops) meaning "face".[2] Bearing
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Years NOVA’s four part videos "Australia’s First 4 Billion Years" takes viewers on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. With help from host and scientist‚ Richard Smith‚ we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos‚ sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans‚ disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids. The visuals (both real and computer-generated) are beautiful‚ and the stories are clearly and engagingly told. The program builds an appreciation
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What are fossils? Fossils are the remains or marks of plants and animals that lived a very long time ago. They are usually found in rocks and stones. Fossils are important because they tell us a story about things that lived on the earth before us. What Things Become Fossils? Animals and plants become fossils. So do nests‚ eggs‚ footprints and even animal droppings! How are Fossils Made? Fossils are made from the hard parts of plants and animals‚ such as:-bark‚ seed cases‚ bones and
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the island would be a disaster. The five major design flaws of Jurassic Park are- they had limited knowledge about the dinosaurs and the environment they needed to live in‚ they assumed that the dinosaurs would be similar to passive zoo animals‚ they assumed the dinosaurs would not be able to get out of their cages and/or off of the island‚ they did not understand that the dinosaurs were intelligent and hunted in packs and had the capacity to kill humans‚ and Hammond did not want to waste resources
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volume Ornithologiae.[5] Carolus Linnaeusmodified that work in 1758 to devise the taxonomic classification system currently in use.[6] Birds are categorised as the biological classAves in Linnaean taxonomy. Phylogenetic taxonomy places Aves in the dinosaur clade Theropoda.[7] Definition Aves and a sister group‚ the clade Crocodilia‚ contain the only living representatives of the reptile clade Archosauria. During the late 1990s‚ Aves was most commonly defined phylogenetically as all descendants of
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adding gruesome effects to the dinosaurs but also transforming the park to look more modern and look like today’s idea of a theme park. In fact the whole theme park is built on technology. For example‚ the rides‚ ways of transportation‚ and the different equipment used to monitor and even create some of the most horrific dinosaurs. One of the types of technology used in the film is the invisible fence used to keep the dinosaurs located in defined zones. Each dinosaur is chipped at birth‚ allowing
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in 1824‚ William Buckland gave this genus its distinctive name. It took another twenty years for the famous paleontologist‚ Richard Owen‚ to convincingly identify the Megalosaurus as a dinosaur (Strauss). In 1820‚ the Iguanodon‚ which was first investigated by Gideon Mantell‚ was identified as the second dinosaur to have a formal genus name. Its numerous fossils stirred up a debate about whether or not these extinct reptiles actually existed (Strauss). Georges Cuvier and William Buckland made a joke
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We Are Living with Giants Introduction: If you ever saw Jurassic Park you know how big dinosaurs could be. As a kid I used to love dinosaurs. For a while I wished that the movie was real. I just wanted to see how majestic it would be to see the biggest creatures that ever lived. But then I found out that Dinosaurs are not the biggest creatures to roam this earth. I found out that the biggest creatures to live on this planet are still alive and that I actually did see one. I found out that the Blue
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