Paleontology

Did all the huge prehistoric animals were dinosaurs? Did some dinosaurs fly and swim? Were all dinosaurs huge? Did the prehistoric man lived alongside dinosaurs? All dinosaurs lived in the same period? Did all dinosaurs died? Why dinosaurs were a…
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Clues to the climates of dinosaur times are recorded in the fossilized remains of the old world. Paleontologists are like detectives, trying to solve the mystery. These are the generally agreed-upon ages that the dinosaurs lived in. Triassic period: This…
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One would think that with the interest in dinosaurs and the amount of information we have about them, that there wouldn’t be very many myths surrounding the creatures. The fact is that there are many popular myths about dinosaurs. It…
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Through studying the bone structure, teeth, stomach contents, physiology and location of dinosaur fossils, scientists can gain great knowledge about the kind of food these ancient lizards lived on. Dinosaurs are divided into two orders: the Saurischia ( lizard-hipped) and…
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There are many famous dinosaur fossil hunters over the past two hundred years that have taken a prestigious place in history as much as the dinosaurs they were hunting. These people are known as paleontologist who is a scientist that…
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The extinction of the dinosaurs occurred during then end of the Cretaceous era, around 65 million years ago, and caused the loss of up to 70 percent of all life on the planet. Although this event was not the only…
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Throughout the past two hundred years a number of people have played important roles in the discovery of dinosaur fossils. Some of these people were scientists, whose field was later called “Paleontology”, many great discoveries were made by regular people…
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It is common knowledge that dinosaurs vanished off the face of the earth approximately 65 million years ago. It was a mass annihilation that still leaves peoples imagination wondering how they lived, how they ate and especially how they became…
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There are many theories on how dinosaurs became extinct from the realistic to the ridiculous. With the many reasons given the most popular one at the moment is the asteriod theory and there are good reasons for this. Scientist know…
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It might be possible within the future to clone those things that once lived upon or in the seas of our Earth. Even now some people are making an attempt to clone mastodons from the frozen bodies of such animals…
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