There are several ways paleontologists, and paleobiologists, learn about what dinosaurs looked like and how they behaved. Oddly enough a lot of it begins as guess work, then ruled down through trial and error, comparing finds with animals we know of…
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Dinosaur fossils have been found all over the world. Finding these beautiful wonders has raised many questions, and paleontologists have answered these fumbling questions with the evidence that lies in the fossils. One question has been answered, but speculations are…
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Dinosaurs are those fascinating creatures that every small child loves, and which stirs the imagination of old and young alike. The last large mass of dinosaurs became extinct around 65 million years ago, give or take a few eons. How…
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Doubt Raised on the Cause of Dinosaur Extinctions A mere 65 million years ago, Tyrannosaurus Rex, a forty-five foot scavenging carnivore, Triceratops, a mellow-mannered, five-ton herbivore, and many other species of dinosaur roamed the planet. Due to the well-preserved fossil…
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Any scientific model is just an approximation of the truth, and as it stands, the theory that life evolved from a melange of its most basic components, out of a so-called “primordial soup”, is a pretty good one. For starters,…
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Tyrannosaurus Rex, was it a “vicious” Hunter that attacked others or a “lowly” scavenger that ate the scraps from true predators? This has been debated ever since the first skeletons were uncovered, at least for several decades. The topic was…
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Imagine a land filled with tall trees and lush green ferns. An abundance of rivers reflect sunlight in a sky with billowy clouds. That was the home of dinosaurs 110 million years ago. Today, that land is known as “Gadoufaoua,”…
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The primordial soup theory, as a means of explanation of the “way things came to be,” lacks sufficient evidence to be called a theory and as such, would be considered at best conjecture, (mostly bunk), or at worst fantasy (completely…
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The world knows the legendary “dinosaur” as being the cold-blooded, cold-hearted killer. In modern times, the dinosaur is feared due to the way it is portrayed as a killer antagonist in such films as “Jurassic Park”. However, new evidence suggests…
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Lamp shells were common at the beginning of the Cambrian period some six hundred million years ago. Their shells are readily fossilised so there is a good record of them from this time on. They were very common in ancient…
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