Can scientists clone dinosaurs? Since the Steven Spielberg classic, “Jurassic Park,” put the question of cloning dinosaurs in the public conscience, the idea evolved into a mountain to climb as genetics made leapfrog advances in research. But science has since…
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Dinosaurs roamed the earth for over 200 million years. The last “terrible lizard” died 65 million years ago. Some dinosaurs happened to die in a place that allowed a fossil to be cast. These fossils were formed and lay uncovered…
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Fossils are the remains of an animal or plant from the past geological eras. There are many different kinds of fossilized materials, like bones, teeth, shells, wood. Then there are trace fossils, like footprints, eggs, nests, animal droppings, leaf impressions,…
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Fossils are often thought to be just preserved remains of animals from prehistoric time periods. However, the term ‘fossil’ also includes impressions, traces, droppings, footprints and various other biological evidence/records that animals have left behind that have been preserved over…
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It is not impossible to find ways of assessing dinosaur behavior thanks to the expertise of many paleontologists whose dedication to their field have uncovered many things about dinosaurs through the fossils they have discovered and examined. All of these…
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Finding dinosaur fossils is nothing new in the perspective of history; it’s just something that has been understood lately. Before people knew what the bones were and what they belonged to, they were easily misunderstood and became the foundation of…
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The dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic Era which was a time of tectonic, climatic and evolutionary activity. It was a time when the continents shifted from a state of connectedness into their present configuration. But just what types of climates…
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Dinosaurs, those lizard-kings that roamed the earth for over 200 million years, left mankind with a great puzzle to solve. Now, when mankind is faced with something new that is puzzling, we seem to conjure any and all possible and…
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Fossils are essential to our knowledge of the earth’s history before humans, and their contribution to our understanding of the planet and the evolution of its wildlife is invaluable. Without the existence of a fossil record, we would know little…
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While it is known that a major event would have been required to bring about the extinction of dinosaurs, there are several theories about what completely killed them off. Although most scientists agree that a large asteroid did in fact…
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