Paleontology

The Primordial soup theory explains that within a “soup” of chemicals present in the early life of the earth, organic matter came into formation, leading eventually to the creation of life. Explaining the source of life on this planet may…
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Dinosaurs, those great big huge reptilian creatures (though some were small, everyone know the giant ones) that lived long ago constantly eating. They had to consume vast quantities to maintain that mas, but vast quantities of what? What did dinosaurs…
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Lions are considered to be the king of all beasts because of its strength. The tyrannosaurus rex is considered to be the king of all dinosaurs because they are the largest carnivore among the prehistoric animals. In order to understand…
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Dinosaurs have stirred the imagination of adults and children for thousands of years, creating myths and stories over the centuries. Some have turned out to be true, but many are false. Myths are generally facts mixed with fiction and the…
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Nightmare from the late Cretaceous:  Carrying up to eight tons of bone, muscle and teeth, Tyrannosaurus Rex is the embodiment of predatory power from the earths distant past. Forty feet long from nose to tail tip, standing up to twenty…
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In the book by Michael Crichton which later became a major movie, “Jurassic Park,” the scientists extracted dinosaur DNA using primarily blood taken from mosquitoes, which had been preserved in amber. The idea was borrowed by Crichton from its originator,…
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In the movie “Jurassic Park,” the recovery of an ancient mosquito which had become trapped in tree resin (amber) shortly after feeding on a dinosaur led to the creation of a dinosaur park where dinosaurs again roamed. Is this idea…
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While the dinosaurs became reportedly extinct over 65 million years ago, most of our modern animals have only evolved in the past 50 million years. The question then arises were any of the the ancestors of animals existing today alive…
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How Fossils Are Formed There are several processes through which the fossils of plants and animals were formed. However it was and still is rare that the right series of circumstances took place that were necessary for a fossil to…
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Thanks to the film makers in Hollywood there are a lot of popular myths associated with dinosaurs. The most common misconception is that they used to be hunted by cavemen. But in actuality dinosaurs were extinct for more than 65…
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