Paleontology







The Precambrian Period

The Precambrian Period is the first geologic time period of the earth. The earth took form about 4.5 billion years ago. For the first 4 billion years of that time, the Earth was growing and changing. During the Precambrian, the…
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T Rex Tissue Discovery

Most fossils contain preserved an organism’s hard tissues, shell, bone, and such; but encountering actual soft tissue, containing cells and proteins, is rare and practically unheard of. In 1990, paleontologist Dr. Mary Schweitzer of Montana State University and a group…
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Pterosaurs Bird or Reptile

Fossil, physiological, and genetic evidence discovered over the past decade has shown that birds are probably the descendants of dinosaurs. As a result, the nature of the relationship between pterosaurs, reptiles, and modern birds has grown extremely controversial, with no…
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How the Dinosaurs Died

Several reasons could have contributed to the death of the dinosaurs but it is often asserted that one event is entirely responsible. This narrow minded thinking has caused us to look for major events that could have caused the extinction…
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Dinosaur Facts Ankylosaurus

Anklyosaurus (“fused lizard”) may have been a tank, in more ways than one. The wide-bodied, armor-plated dinosaur of the Cretaceous period (70 million to 65 million years ago) may have moved around like a military tank, with a body mass…
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