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- Dinosaurs Fossils - Paleontology (Internet Encyclopedia - Davis)
Provides over two dozen sources of information related to dinosaurs. 10-09
- Dinosaurs Database (Dinosaur Society)
Provides the names of virtually all dinosaurs in alphabetical order.
- Dinosaurs Clip Art (Kids Domain)
Provides icon size pictures of the better known dinosaurs.
- Dinosaurs by Phylogeny (UCMP)
Provides a well-organized study of dinosaurs. 2-01
- Dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs Puzzles and Quizzes (Enchanted Learning.com)
- Feathered Dinosaurs (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
Provides fossils of some of the earliest clues that birds evolved from dinosaurs with feathers. Sinosauropteryx prima, Caudipteryx zoui, Confuciusornis, and Protarchaeopteryx robusta were feathered dinosaurs, whereas Archaeopteryx was the oldest known bird.
- Feathered Dinosaurs (Rey)
Provides a painting and a description of dinosaurs with feathers or feather-like coverings, possibly linking them to birds of today. Sinosauropteryx prima, Caudipteryx zoui, Confuciusornis, and Protarchaeopteryx robusta were feathered dinosaurs, whereas Archaeopteryx was the oldest known bird.
- Feathered Dinosaurs (Deem)
Provides arguments against the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs, such as the Sinosauropteryx prima. December, 1997. However, two more types of feathered dinosaurs were found in 1998, supporting very strongly the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Sinosauropteryx prima, Caudipteryx zoui, Confuciusornis, and Protarchaeopteryx robusta were feathered dinosaurs, whereas Archaeopteryx was the oldest known bird.
- Feathered Dinosaurs (Science Service - Monastersky)
Provides pictures and a description of dinosaurs with feathers or feather-like coverings, possibly linking them to birds of today. Sinosauropteryx prima, Caudipteryx zoui, Confuciusornis, and Protarchaeopteryx robusta were feathered dinosaurs, whereas Archaeopteryx was the oldest known bird.
- Dinosaurs (Dino Land Paleontology - Brusatte)
Provides articles, pictures, and graphics. 4-00
- Dinosaurs - Finds of the Millennium (Dino Land Paleontology - Brusatte)
Provides descriptions of the best finds as rated by a panel of 22 judges. 4-00
- Dinosaurs I-P (EnchantedLearning.com)
Provides a comprehensive and well-organized study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, oriented to children and teens. Includes Ichthyosaurs, Iguanodon, Janenschia, Kentrosaurus, Kronosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Lesothosaurus, Maiasaura, Majungatholis, Mamenchisaurus, Massospondylus, Megalosaurus, Megaraptor, Microvenator, Minmi, Monoclonius, Montanoceratops, Mosasaurs, Mussaurus, Nothosaurs, Notoceratops, Ornitholestes, Ornithomimus, Othnielia, Ouranosaurus, Oviraptor, Pachycephalosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Pentaceratops, Plateosaurus, Plesiosaurs, and Protarchaeopteryx, Protoceratops, Protohadros, Psittacosaurus, Pteranodon, Pterodactyls, and Pterosaurs. 10-00
- -Dinosaurs Resources (EnchantedLearning.com)
Provides comprehensive and well-organized descriptions and pictures of most, if not all, known types of dinosaurs. Shows anatomy, comparisons, types of dinosaurs by geological period, news about dinosaurs, and much more. 10-00
- Dinosaurs - Pronunciation and Glossary of Terms (Dinosauria.com)
Provides pronunciation of dinosaur names, a glossary of terms used in paleontology, maps of the earth during other geological ages, and more. 5-01
- Dinosaurs - Worksheets (ABC Teach)
Provides dozens of printable worksheets organized by type or theme.
- Dinosaurs (Museum of Paleontology)
"The creatures that we normally think of as dinosaurs lived from late in the Triassic period (about 225 million years ago) until the end of the Mesozoic era (about 65 million years ago), but actually they live on today as the birds." 4-02
- Games About Dinosaurs (Discovery.com)
Provides games and puzzles. 12-09
- Dinosaurs (Discovery.com)
Provides drawings of some of the dinosaurs by continent. 12-09
- Dinosaurs Quiz (HowStuffWorks.com)
Provides a quiz. 12-09
- Dinosaur Exhibit
- Ask the Dinosaur Expert
- Dinosaur Exhibits (Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette)
Provides information on a wide variety of exhibits by city and date.
- Earth Sciences
- Old Bones n Stuff (Museum of Paleontology)
- Tyrannosaurus rex (EnchantedLearning.com)
Provides diagrams and other information on Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs. Includes a search engine that checks for spelling errors. 10-00
- Dinosaur Resources (Dinosauria On-Line)
Provides definitions, images, and articles on dinosaurs. Technical and not for younger students. 2-00
- Dinosaur Heart Found (Time.com)
Provides evidence that dinosaurs were warm blooded, like birds and mammals.
- Paleontology by Geological Period, Phylogeny, or Theory (UCMP)
Provides alternative formats of exploring paleontology. 3-00
- Mesozoic Period (EnchantedLearning.com)
Describes the mesozoic era of history, the age of reptiles. "The Mesozoic Era lasted about 180 million years, and is divided into three periods, the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous." 5-01
- Crocodiles - Extinct Supercroc (National Geographic)
"The giant creature, which lived 110 million years ago, during the Middle Cretaceous, grew as long as 40 feet (12 meters) and weighed as much as eight metric tons (17,500 pounds). Its jaws alone were nearly six feet (1.8 meters) long and its more than 100 teeth so powerful that the colossal creature probably consumed small dinosaurs as well as fish, the researchers say." 3-02
- Jurassic Period of Time (Museum of Paleontology)
Covers 208 to 146 million years ago. Dinosaurs roamed the earth during this period. 4-02
- Mesozoic Period of Time
- Tyrannosaurus rex Ancestor Had Feathers (Nature.com)
"Ancestors of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex were clothed in delicate feathers, a fossil discovered in China suggests. The find may come as a surprise to people used to images of Tyrannosaurus as a scaly monster. But many palaeontologists [sic] have been predicting just such a find ever since the first evidence of a dinosaur with a feathery coat came from the same site in Liaoning in 1995."
"The 130 million-year-old fossil is the oldest member recorded from the tyrannosauroid family, and the first in the group with a feather-like covering." "Paleontologist" is the correct spelling in the United States. 10-04
- -03-25-05 Dinosaur "Flesh" Found in a Surprise Discovery (CBS News)
"In an announcement that conjured up thoughts of the movie 'Jurassic Park,' researchers revealed they had recovered soft tissues that resemble blood vessels and even cells from a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex."
"They don't know if they'll be able to recover DNA — the blueprint to life that was the key to recreating the giant animals in the fictional film." 3-05
- Extinction Level Event (National Geographic)
"Scientists studying the fallout from a huge asteroid that crashed into Earth 65 million years ago have gained better understanding of the event that most likely took out the dinosaurs and much other life on the planet."
"The asteroid that created the Chicxulub (pronounced CHEEK-shoo-loob) crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, was probably more than 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide, researchers estimate. The resulting crater was 110 to 125 miles (180 to 200 kilometers) wide and very deep. Today it is buried under several miles of limestone and is mostly underwater." 4-05
- Dinosaur Embryo Fossils Discovered (Scientific American)
"The oldest fossilized dinosaur embryos yet discovered are revealing tantalizing clues about dinosaur evolution, scientists say. Findings published today in the journal Science indicate that some of the prehistoric creatures started out on four legs before growing into bipedal behemouths. In addition, they further support the notion that newly hatched dinos did not fend for themselves and instead relied on their parents for food and nourishment."
- Evolution as Science (WhyFiles.org)
"By endorsing the theory that evolution through natural selection is an unproven theory, the elected board defied 150 years of science. It also raised doubts about a foundation of biology that has been resolved by the mounting evidence that all forms of life are interrelated."
"Evolution, the scientific study of the origins and development of life, has roots in geology, paleontology and field biology. It explains, for example, why so many insects but so few dinosaurs are alive today, or why certain flowers can only be pollinated by certain birds. It explains why microbes can become resistant to antibiotics, why cancers become resistant to anti-cancer drugs, and why the bones in a bat wing resemble the bones in your hand."
" 'A theory in science is not a hunch or "just a theory" as some say. It is an explanation built on multitudinous confirmed facts and the absence of incompatible facts.' Omitting evolution from biology, Singer pointed out, 'is comparable to leaving the U.S. Constitution out of civics lessons. Evolution is the framework that makes sense of the whole natural world...' "
" 'In the past 10 or 20 years, we have developed this completely independent record. Studies of the genome [an organism's genetic code] have in most cases completely confirmed...the relationships deduced from the fossil record.' " 8-05
- Spinosaurus May Have Towered Over T-Rex Dinosaur (Guardian Unlimited)
"The spinosaurus - now officially the biggest predatory dinosaur known to man - measured 17 metres (55ft) from nose to tail, had long, crocodile-like jaws, and is thought to have had a sail on its back." 02-06
- Tyrannosaurus rex (American Museum of Natural History)
"Almost everything about this dinosaur -- the four-foot-long jaw, the six-inch-long teeth, and the huge thigh bones -- bespeaks the enormous power of Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest theropod (or meat-eating) dinosaurs that ever existed." Visitors sometimes misspell as Tyranosaurus or Tyranosorus. 02-06
- Sue, Most Complete T-Rex Fossil on Display (FieldMuseum.org)
Provides pictures and information. 02-06
- Earliest Known T. rex Dinosaur Found (Nature.com)
"Ask any dinner-party palaeontologist and they'll tell you that, despite its star turn in Jurassic Park, Tyrannosaurus rex didn't live in the Jurassic period. But now a team in China has found a tyrannousaur that did, and it gives us valuable clues about the rise of this clan of prehistoric predators."
"The new species, found in Xinjiang province in northwestern China, lived around 160 million years ago. This makes it more than twice as old as T. rex, and the most primitive known member of the family." 02-06
- Chicxulub Crater (Space.com)
"When a giant space rock slammed into Earth 65 million years ago near the present-day village of Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula, not only did it wipe out a lot of dinosaurs, it left behind a huge crater and, inside that pock, an even bigger mystery." 03-06
- Study: Ancient Bird Had Four Wings (MSNBC News)
"The earliest known bird had flight feathers on its legs that allowed it to use its hindlimbs as an extra pair of wings, a new study finds."
" 'The idea that a multi-winged Archaeopteryx has been around for more than a century, but it has received little attention,' Longrich said. 'I believe one reason for this is that people tend to see what they want or expect to see. Everybody knows that birds don't have four wings, so we overlooked them even when they were right under our noses.' " 09-06
- -10-05-06 "Monster" Fossil Found in Arctic (BBC News)
"Norwegian scientists have discovered a "treasure trove" of fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs."
"The fossil hoard comprises 21 long-necked plesiosaurs, six ichthyosaurs and one short-necked plesiosaur. The bones were unearthed in fine-grained sedimentary rock called black shale." 10-06
- Dinosaur DNA Yields a Surprise (Livescience.com)
"Scientists used to think that relatively shorter genomes were associated with flight."
"But the new finding by Chris Organ of Harvard University and his colleagues complicates this thinking and shows that the shorter genomes of birds originated in saurischian dinosaurs, the group of dinosaurs from which birds evolved and that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. So rather than being a characteristic of birds or flying animals, short genomes should be thought of as a characteristic of dinosaurs, including the killer theropod dinosaurs, he said."
- Dinosaur Mass Grave Found (CNN.com)
"An amateur paleontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe's largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus."
- Feathered Find Could Rewrite Dinosaur History (Christian Science Monitor)
"Scientists in China report that they have unearthed the fossil remains of a small plant-eating dinosaur that sports what appears to be a primitive form of feather." 03-09
- Hypercanes (Wikipedia.org)
"A hypercane is a hypothetical class of extreme tropical cyclone that could form if ocean temperatures reached around 50 °C (122 °F), 15 °C higher than the warmest ocean temperature ever recorded,[1] which could in turn be caused by a large asteroid or comet impact, a large volcanic or supervolcanic eruption, or very extensive global warming.[2] There is some speculation that some dinosaurs might have been finished off by a series of hypercanes, resulting from an asteroid or comet crashing into Earth.[3] The term was coined by atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel in 1994, at MIT." 08-09
- Miniature T. Rex Discovered (USA Today)
"Tyrannosaurus Rex's likely ancestors started small, but perfectly armed, some 125 million years ago, dinosaur researchers reported Thursday. Puny arms, massive jaws, swift legs — all the ingredients of the king of the carnivores — adorned a newly discovered dinosaur, Raptorex kriegsteini, reported by the journal Science. But Raptorex was only about 1/90 the size of Tyrannosaurus, and flourished about 40 million years before T.Rex appears in the fossil record." 09-09
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