The Victorian Paleontology

Sedimentary rocks interpret dinosaur habitats through encased environmental structures of the past. Through sedimentary rocks, paleoecologists’ can examine the arranged formation of sedimentary structures to specify what type of environment the dinosaurs’ lived in. An example of a specific sedimentary rock structure can be seen through formed weathering and ripple marks by how wind and sand formed distinct patterns in the past layered sediment. These arrangements provide interpretations on the structure of the sediment and the habitat of encased fossils, through modern day comparisons

The Riversleigh fossil site is a part of the Boodjamulla National Park. The site was World Heritage listed in 1994. The fossil record of Riversleigh's habitats have greatly strengthened our understanding of evolution, origins, and the history of organisms. Many of the most abnormal and phenomenal organisms in the Australian fossil record have been discovered at the site. The sight contained about 30,000 footprints from a stampede involving nearly 200 dinosaurs. It sits on the south-western boundary of the Territory of the Waanyi Aboriginal clan. Riversleigh contains a collection of many fossils from around ten to thirty million years ago. Its record of mammal evolution spans of twenty million years in length at least. The fossils of thousands

In a study published in Cretaceous Research and conducted in October 2012 by Anthony R. Fiorillo, Thomas L. Adams and Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, evidence of dinosaurs was based on the finding of an unnamed nonmarine sedimentary package of rocks. Found in the Wrangellia Terrane and considered to be Cretaceous age, the rocks are light colored with medium grey shales and indicate a bounty of horsetails, ferns and gymnosperm wood.

The Bone Wars was a rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh and was also known as “The Great Dinosaur Rush.” This dinosaur rush was during the gilded age of American history with the discovery of over 140 new species of dinosaurs being described and discovered. These two men started as friends strangely enough and ending as bitter enemies with little to no money to their names. The Bone Wars covered a period of 15 years from 1877 to 1892. These two paleontologists ended up using underhanded methods during this time to try and out-compete the other in the discovery of dinosaurs.

(B) - The recognizable remains of a plant or animal are known as fossils. Unlike artifacts, fossils are not made by man and instead come from living things. Those who study fossils are known as paleontologists. The word “fossil” comes from the Latin word “fossilis”, which means “found by digging”.

The central idea of this article is the study of the Storr Lochs Monster and how its study can be applied to more fossils being found and studied in Scotland and in the Middle Jurassic Period. The author states that very few fossils can hunted down and studied in Scotland, and in the rest of the world fossils from the Middle Jurassic Period, when this creature lived, are very rare. Steve Brusatte, the Paleontologist from Scotland, said "We know that quite a lot was happening during the Middle Jurassic Period" he also said "It's frustrating because it seems like an active period in evolution but one with very few fossils" and also inputted that he hopes after the study of the Storr Lochs monster that an increase in Scottish paleontology can

The Grey Defining Natural History Natural history can be defined in many ways. It could be the development of a disease or bacteria, the study of natural objects or, a treatise on some aspect of nature. The Grey provides a prime example how humans affect the natural state of an ecosystem. The Grey is a movie about an oil company in Alaska flying men to go home for vacation. These men end up in a gruesome plane crash.

A five-year old boy and his father walk through the American Museum of Natural History in New York (“World Biography”). They explore the exhibits, but one in particular stands out to the child. In front of him stands a Tyrannosaurus rex. The five-year old boy was Stephen Jay Gould. He is quoted saying, “As we stood in front of the beast, a man sneezed; I gulped and prepared to utter my Sherman Yisrael. But the great animal stood immobile in all its bony grandeur, and as we left, I announced that I would be a paleontologist when I grew up,” (qtd. in “World Biography”). This proclamation was the beginning to a long and successful career in paleontology and evolution.

Introduction: Fossils are defined as a physical trace or evidence of life from a prior geological time period which has been preserved. Examples of fossils include burrows, indentations or bite marks, footprints or other impressions, coprolites, hard animal body parts such as bone, shells or horns or mineralized plant remains embedded in stratified rock.

The first dinosaurs were small, meat-eating animals that first arose over 200 million years ago. From such small beginnings evolved thousands of different species, including the largest animals ever to walk on Earth. At the Smithsonian, some of the most important dinosaurs known to science stand in our exhibit halls, from the ferocious Allosarus to eighty-foot Diplodocus. Learn more about our famous dinosaurs

This evolution was very important in the 1920’s by how science was introduced as an enemy of society. The main person that was John Thomas Scopes had the idea of teaching his students about science as the Darwinism theory, that explain another way we were evolved. At that time families were based on religious belief in how we were created by God. The issues that brought to people, like parents to have doubts in bringing to children to learn science for them was like brainwashing. Darwin had the idea of evolution by the origin of how we were born as human kinds. Gary B. Ferngren states, “ many modern religious thinkers look for a common ground in which evolution can be seen as God’s method of creation,”( pg 219, Ferngren).

Imagine going back to the dinosaur era and finding out why the dinosaurs went extinct. If Jacob Graft could, he would travel back in time to do just that. Jacob is a junior at Hempfield Area High School. I have seen him a couple times in the hallways but never had a conversation with him, until now. I got to learn many interesting things about Jacob during this interview. While interviewing Jacob, I discovered many aspects about his family life, school activities, and personality traits and hobbies.

When am I going to catch a break? Vince thought about his life as he sat waiting for the bus. His grass stained pants and green hands had showed the signs of a hard day’s work. He thought about what life would be like to have parents that he could turn to, when he needed them. His dad was in prison all of his life, and his mother has been on drugs ever since he could remember. “How the hell am I going to get my car out of impound?” Vince said to himself. He had been pulled over for not paying his insurance, and now faced the dilemma of getting his car out, or paying rent. He sat there with his elbows on his knees, and stared at the cars going by.

Archeology is not as simple as looking at rocks and figuring out the past. Carbon dating and other methods that can be used were further explained during this lecture. Other aspects of archeology were also better elaborated during the talk as well.

While exploring the vast categories of craft the Victorian’s participated in, I became interested in the strange world of Victorian taxidermy. As I continued to look into this subject further, it became apparent that some Victorian crafts tended to lean into the era’s more morbid fascinations. I wondered why Victorians became so enraptured in a seemingly macabre past-time of mounting stuffed animals into the sometimes whimsical, charming dioramas to display within their homes. As I started my research, I began to wonder if the attraction to this craft was in any way related to the incredibly prominent colonial holding of Victorian Great Britain. I became curious to figure out who these people involved in amateur taxidermy were, in addition to why the world of taxidermy was so alluring to such a large group of people in this specific time frame. Unfortunately, I found a lacking of available information concerning