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    Dinosaur National Monument ensures an expansive store of fossil bones of animals that lived almost 150 million years prior. The fossils enable us to take in more about these intriguing creatures. Dinosaur National Monument is extraordinary in light of the fact that guests can see fossils uncovered on the bluff face of the Douglass Quarry at the recreation center guest focus. This site gives a standout amongst other previews of Jurassic dinosaurs discovered anyplace on the planet. The quarry was…

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    According to world famous paleontologist Jack Horner, “Dinosaurs may be extinct from the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations. “ Horner’s words illustrate the fact that even though dinosaurs may never come back, they still draw attention in present day. Millions of years ago, dinosaurs breathed, walked, and lived on the face of the Earth. Dinosaurs were the dominant land animals for 160 million years, making them one of the most successful groups of animals ever. They first…

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    THEIR ARE MANY MANY THEORIES ON WHY THE DINOSAURS BECAME EXTINCT THE CAUSE OF THIS MASS EXTINCTION VARIES WIDELY. Some of those theories are that Years ago an asteroid crashed onto Earth’s surface. Mountains formed within minutes. In America, a tsunami hit covering plants and animals, under piles of rubble. Debrie was scattered, The planet was broken down and it stayed that way for years. But the most clear explanation to why the dinosaurs rapidly died out with the Mose scientific evedence is…

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    extinction of the dinosaurs was gradually over millions of years “both process probably played a role”(DinoBuzz). Most scientists do agree that an asteroid was a factor, it’s also acknowledged thaDinosaurs roamed the earth for 163 million years.(Dinosaur Worlds). They thrived as one of the most successful groups of animals in the history of life on land(PBS). Then, 66 million years ago, the last group of dinosaurs disappeared forever; leaving us with the question - what killed the dinosaurs?…

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    The largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have embarked on seasonal migrations that covered hundreds of kilometres when local watering holes dried up and food became scarce. Evidence that giant sauropods set off on epic journeys came to light when scientists examined fossilised teeth recovered from the remains of beasts unearthed in Wyoming and Utah in the US. The analysis of 32 teeth belonging to two species of Camarasaurus, among the most common sauropods found in North America, suggests…

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    160 million years, the terrestrial environment was dominated by dinosaurs. Dinosaurs arose from fully bipedal ancestors, who is believed to have been a carnivore or omnivore (Langer, Ezcurra, Bittencourt & Novas, 2010). These agile terrestrial archosaurs lived during the Late Permian and Early Triassic and had already developed key changes in the hips and ankles that set the stage for the increase in body size that is seen in dinosaurs (Pough, Janis & Heiser, 2013). This included an alteration…

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    sized (compared to it’s close relatives) theropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Like other abelisaurids (members of the family Abelisauridae) , the Majungasaurus was a two-footed predator with a short snout. Although the forelimbs are not completely known as of yet, they were very short, while the hind limbs were longer and quite stocky. It can be distinguished from other dinosaurs in it’s family by its wider skull, the…

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    2015, Jason Schein an assistant curator of natural history at the New Jersey State Museum was asked to go to the site of a dinosaur called Suuwassea. Thus far in life, Jason Schein has helped in the excavation of the last long- The Suuwassea dinosaur is categorized as a long tailed sauropod dinosaur that is found in the Upper Jurassic strata of the Morrison Formation. This dinosaur does not have a rich background but it does fill in some evolutionary gaps. The Suuwassea that was found is the…

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    Over time there have been many theories as to how the dinosaurs became extinct, some of these include terrestrial stresses (such as lower sea level or global temperature) and radiation (Pasichnyk, 2011), but the 2 theories that have become the most widely accepted as they have the most amount of supporting evidence are the Impact Theory (otherwise known as the Alvarez Hypothesis (Smith, 2005)) and the Volcanic Theory (Pasichnyk, 2011). The Impact Theory states that millions of years ago a comet…

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    The Road to Extinction Dinosaurs have captured the whole world’s attention and curiosity. How did they come to be extinct? What factors led to this downfall? Are they completely extinct? All these questions additional to several others have aroused among many scientists. Although the extinction of the dinosaurs was the smallest one it seems to be the most discussed (Meyer, 2016, personal communication). So what was the cause of the end of these grand creatures? In the article “The ‘Great…

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