Paleontology

The age of fossils are determined by carbon dating and by radioactive calculations. Since all living things are made up of carbon, the relative age of fossils, which were once live animal or plant life, can be calculated by estimating…
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                Brachiosaurus is the tallest dinosaur and tallest animal to ever walk the earth. It stood at a height of up to 40 feet. It was also pretty long at 92 feet, and heavy at 50 tons. They lived in…
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Based on the fossilized bones that archaeologists unearthed, dinosaurs are gigantic and sometimes ferocious organisms. They didn’t just exist, they ruled the surface of planet earth. But suddenly, about 65 million years ago, they disappeared. Something so large affected these…
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Large swamp-dwelling dinosaurs—like the Brachiosaurus—had heads that floated on the water and sucked up their food like massive vacuum cleaners. So declare two scientists that compare the physiology of the gigantic brutes to the bulky, noisy household vacuum cleaners sold…
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A dinosaur fossil discovery is exciting paleontologists. An international scientific team, working in Angola, recently discovered the fossilized front limb of a formerly unknown dinosaur. The team found the fossil, with fish and shark teeth, in a 90 million year…
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In March of 2005 paleontologists Jack Horner and Mary Schweitzer, participants in an excavation in Montana, discovered a very new and exciting fact about a 68-million year old tyrannosaurus rex fossil. They discovered that this particular fossil was a female….
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Lots of dinosaur fossils are being found everyday. Fossils found are usually not complete. This makes it harder to obtain accurate information about the dinosaur. There are almost-complete dinosaur fossil, but even with the skeleton it is hard to determine…
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Tiny tyrant (nanotyrannus). Giant duck (anatotitan). Lea Ellyn Lizard (leaellynosaura). Three-horned lizard (triceratops). Egypt lizard (aegyptosaurs). King of the Tyrants lizard (Tyrannosaurus rex). Dinosaur names mean something. The preceding names are among what a few of those dinosaur names mean….
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Carcharodon megalodon would be a massive animal if it still existed. Carcharodon megalodon is the scientific name for the Megalodon shark and the Megalodon shark could reach lengths of 60 feet long. 60 feet long is massive by any measure….
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To answer the question of whether or not dinosaurs could swim, it is important to realize that not every prehistoric animal was a dinosaur. Certainly there were a lot of huge swimming creatures, such as Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus, but these…
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