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    David Dilcher First Woman

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    new scientific discoveries today. It all begins in northern China, where amidst the country's rich, volcanic conditions for fossil-finding, Professor Sun Ge and his team first unearth the Archaefructus fossil from an ancient lake in a region where dinosaurs once roamed. Sun Ge brings his amazing find to paleobotanist David Dilcher at the University of Florida, who has been hunting for a fossil like this his entire life. There were many evidence used in the film to determine the evolutionary…

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    at a rate that is similar to those of preceding mass extinctions. Most importantly, if the destruction and contamination of the natural world continue at the same pace then it will conclude with the end of humanity. Similar to the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, Kolbert believes that a continual course of modern day life with destroy the earth. The sixth extinction is not something that is coming in the future, it is here now. Many of the earth’s plant and animal species have…

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    The Six Great Extinctions Extinction is just another word used for the dying off of one species or of many species. Since the beginning of time there have been five mass extinction and then some smaller extinctions. Either big or small, they play a huge role in the evolution of the species around us. Whether they were a common ancestor, or a close relative to an organism, they still helped the organisms we know today evolve and adapt to the environment that we now share. During the extinction…

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    difference of what is natural, and what is artificial. He uses the idea of scientifically bringing back extinct dinosaurs, and creating a zoo for these reptiles. This fictional idea of bringing back prehistoric animals traps us in wondering the big question. Are these dinosaurs actually real, or are they just artificial beings used for science, and entertainment? These cloned dinosaurs are completely artificial, and are not meant to live in this world. What makes anything natural? Everybody…

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    Jurassic Park Psychology

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    Analysis The Jurassic Park film was released in 1993 when dinosaurs were brought back from extinction, in which turned into an amusement park. In the movie, John Hammond is fanatic about dinosaurs so much that he spends lots of his time trying to figure out how to clone them. Even though he loves dinosaurs, he wants to make a profit off of making a dinosaur park. Eventually Hammond, the owner of InGen, finds a scientist who knows how to clone dinosaurs. This ends up forming a park that Dr. Alan…

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    King Kong captures Ann, the filmmakers try to hunt him down to rescue their movie star. In a pursuit across the mysterious island, King Kong drops Ann in the crook of a tree and leaves to fend off the filmmakers on a cliff. As Ann hides from a dinosaur and King Kong defends himself from the…

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    you want to see a large dinosaur, then you are reading the right page. The Triceratops is about 9.5 to 9.8 feet tall and 30 feet long. This dinosaur was found by paleontologists in 1887. The Latin name for this dinosaur is Triceratops, it means "three horned face." The man that named the triceratops was Othniel Marsh. There is a ton of cool facts about this ginormous dinosaur. This dinosaur can weigh from 13,000 to 25,000 thousand pounds. The Triceratops dinosaur can get to be…

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    the world. This is not merely a museum but alongside the art galleries, this museum also has a library and research center which enhance the importance of this place and so it always remains crowded with visitors, historians, researchers, etc. The dinosaur collection at this museum…

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    did not certify that Sinosauropteryx was a feathered dinosaur. Whereas, the lecture rebuts this statement, and manifests that Sinosauropteryx has feathers. To begin with, the paragraph asserts that the fine lines were the fibers decomposed from skin preserved in the fossil instead of functional structures. Contrary to the reading, the lecture refutes that the fine lines are indeed functional structures, potentially feathers of a living dinosaur. It is infeasible that the skin may have…

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    Volcanism Hypothesis

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    Since the discovery of fossils in the early 19th century, people have wondered how the dinosaurs went extinct. Many theories have since come about, however, even today we cannot be sure what exactly whipped out these magnificent and colossal beings. In 1679, Robert Plot found and sketched a thigh bone which he believed was from the skeleton of a giant man This fossil has since disappeared, however the drawing remains and seems to suggest it was actually a part of a megalosaurus. In 1822, Mary…

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