Paleontology

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…

Ian Miller is a Paleontologist who works for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Ian Miller’s problem is that he wants to find out how Western North America changed from the past 100 million years, what past climates were like 100 million years ago and the fossil ecosystems that existed 100 million years ago. Through solving and studying this problem, there have been many obstacles to solving his questions. Although obstacles causes trouble and hardships through experiments and test, Ian…

Stingrays has been around for more than a 100 millions years. Stingrays have a many unique features like there skeleton, it has cartilages instead of bone. However thats not what so dangerous they have a very venomous tail. They fire their tail forward with alot of force and will release the poison when pierces the skin. There eyes are right on top of their body but they don't use them for hunting prey. They don't eat so very much and they eat anything living and small. They are very lazy and…

The velociraptor is my favorite dinosaur due to its high level of intelligence. The velociraptor was a carnivore and when it hunted in packs one of the top predators of its time. When it was alone the velociraptor ate mainly lizards and other small animals. It could also be a scavenger. When the velociraptor hunted in packs though it could take down much larger dinosaurs like the hadrosaur. It also ate smaller dinosaurs like pterosaurs. The velociraptor lived during the cretaceous period. Its…

There is a steadily growing consensus that recent human activity has had such an impact that it has shifted the Earth into a new geologic epoch of our own making. The advent of this epoch, known as the Anthropocene, has generated much discussion and tension between the various science disciplines. The major issue being discussed is whether there is a need for a new era covering the last three centuries of human impact on the planet. Defining this epoch, in terms of both time and space, has also…

Another theory can be that people saw dinosaurs or unearthed dinosaur bones. The notion that people have seen these creatures is highly unlikely, due the fact that humanity could have never walk the Earth at the same time as dinosaur. Dinosaur roomed the Earth approximately 235 million years ago, becoming extinct some 65 million years ago. The earliest recorded dragon legend was around 5,000 years ago. In Dragons or Dinosaur: creation or evolution, author Darek Isaacs (2010), he (and other…

Ichthyosaurs, or fish-lizards, are fish-shaped reptiles that lived in our oceans 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. Paleontologists discovered the first fossils in the early 1800s, far before dinosaurs were ever discovered. This genus evolved from animals that lived on land. They had more than eighty different species in their genus. One species of the ichthyosaurs is the Ophthalmosaurus. As an adult, this creature was two times the size of a human with a tooth filled snout.…

Life will change over time, gradually forming the most adaptable species look. Ancient creatures can be verified by residual fossils: the older the older, the more the difference between its morphology and the existing species. At the same time people can also discover the relationship between species and species from fossils. Archaeopteryx has sharp teeth, feet three toes have claws, long bone tail, these are dinosaur features, and it also has feathers, wings, and modern birds similar, so is…

Introduction Jurassic Park is a 1990 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton. It revolves around a businessman’s attempt to create an amusement park whose primary attractions are dinosaurs recreated using genetic engineering. Unlike the 1993 Steven Spielberg movie adaptation, which is about the wonderful feeling of seeing a real live dinosaur, and about the technical accomplishment that went behind it, the book deals with the ethical and logistical issues that accompany such a task. The…

1. The movie Life on Earth focused on how fossils are glimpses of a distant past because they explain how life evolved on earth. They also used a Cladogram to explain the cladistic relationship between a number of species. The first organism with a nucleus lived one and a half million years ago. An animal with a braincase and a beginning of a backbone appeared 500 million years ago. Amniotes were split into two main lineages. One is identified by a hole that evolved in the skull behind the eye…