Paleontology

Dinosaurs lived for over 160 million years, dying out about 65 million years ago. We would not know about them had they not left us hints of their existence in the form of fossils. Just how we came to understand…
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During the time of the dinosaur there were no factories or automobiles so the ozone layer would be in perfect condition. There was one natural disaster that could have damaged the ozone layer back then and that was volcanoes. This…
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A long, long, time ago, before there were people, there were dinosaurs, and even before there were dinosaurs, there were jellyfish, dragonflies, and many other animals that we still have today. While the last of the dinosaurs died out 65…
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It is hard to believe but there are a few remaining animals that actually roamed the earth with the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs lived on earth during the Mesozoic Era. This era was divided into three periods: the Triassic, the Jurassic…
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There are several myths about dinosaurs, from those that are mistaken beliefs about how they lived, to those that claim some species still exist (in their prehistoric form) today. Let us look at some of those wonderful myths and sort…
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For over 160 million years Dinosaurs walked the planet, eating and being eaten in a role of survival that has existed since life began. Dinosaurs were huge, they had to eat, and they had to eat a lot, but just…
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Maybe it is foolish to believe that all dinosaurs could swim, but it seems to me that those who discovered that they could not swim did at least make an effort to do so before they sank to the bottom…
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Since the beginning of geological time, the earth has undergone five mass extinctions. The “Big 5” caused the extinction of about 99% of the species that once inhabited the earth. The last major extinction occurred 65 million years ago, somewhere…
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Dinosaur remains were first discovered by the Chinese thousands of years ago. At the time these early fossils were thought to be dragon bones. Unfortunately most of these finds have vanished, as the ancient Chinese believed them to hold great…
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When enormous dragonflies ruled the sky: Life was never easy for small amphibians or average sized flying insects during the late Carboniferous and early Permian periods of the Paleozoic Era. As though the day to day requirement to feed and…
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