Thinking humans, Homo sapiens, made their presence known about 100,000 years ago. Dinosaurs had already been extinct for 65 million years. Early man may well have noticed the strange bones that later times would eager collect. These early ancestors were…
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The reptiles we classify under the superorder Dinosauria, and commonly call dinosaurs, consisted of a vast array of different species. While species of dinosaurs roamed and dominated the terrestrial (land) environments of the Earth for approximately 160 million years, up…
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Could Jurassic Park actually be in your backyard? A velociraptor racing at you as you step out to your grill. A T. Rex thrusting at you from the shrubbery. A brontosaurus peeking into your kitchen window. It might not be…
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Even though dinosaurs have been extinct for many millions of years it wasn’t until the 1800’s that the bones they left behind was discovered and recorded. It is known that the discovery of dinosaurs could have happened as far back…
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The Primordial Soup theory has been around for at least five decades. Oparin believed that the conditions and chemical make-up of the Earth’s oceans were optimal for the development of life on Earth. Scientists all over the world have been…
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Ever since the first dinosaur fossils were discovered and the world came to know about these magnificent former rulers of our planet, one question that has constantly baffled us is: Just how did dinosaurs became extinct? They were quite literally…
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The age of the dinosaurs, or the Mesozoic Era began 240 million years ago after a mass extinction towards the end of the Palaeozoic Era. This was a phase of geographical upheaval as land that we know as Europe and…
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Thanks to the fossils that have been discovered in the past two hundred years and the studies by paleontologist, we have a fair idea of the diet of dinosaurs. There were two main orders of dinosaurs . One is called…
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Scientists gather information about dinosaurs by relying upon a variety of resources at their disposal, the first of which being human intuition and the ability to observe and theorize. Fossils and the timeline established by the fossil record help scientists…
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Scientists in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo devo for short) are currently experimenting with gene manipulation that in the future may enable us to recreate dinosaurs. Let me say that again; we may be able to fulfill the…
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