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    Dinosaur Extinction Sixty-Five Million years ago, a giant space rock believed to be some six miles across hit Earth near the town of Chicxulub, Mexico, blasting a crater more than 110 miles wide. The impact is believed to have released as much energy as 100 trillion tons of TNT, more than 1 billion times the power of the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs in the seas and the pterosaurs in the skies. Plankton, the base of the ocean

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    Dinosaurs were huge animals that existed in the past (Triassic period). Species came in different sizes and forms. Some had huge bodies while other tiny bodies and shape. From historical evidence prevalent today, dinosaurs were found in all continents but differed in sizes and physical attributes. The landmass prevalent in different regions denoted the type of species that existed within its boundaries. Some Dinosaurs were herbivores; therefore their teeth and digestive systems were developed

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    Title: Recognize the procedure to search and purchase genuine dinosaur fossils It can be a fun and stimulating information when you are scanning for dinosaur fossils, for instance, bones and eggs. Territory is the huge criteria to make sense of fossils and if you are at the unequivocal place and know not the bone then there is an open entryway for you to get reward by a bone of a soonest creature. If you are genuinely organized and well characteristic on the most ideal approach to enhance your probabilities

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    October 31, 2015 Dinosaur National Park and It’s Geology The mountains and rivers stretching between northern Utah and Colorado hold an array of secrets from the ancient past. While the average tourist admiring the rocks, fossils, and and cliffs of Dinosaur National Park may get the jist of the park, they may not comprehend the extent to what it takes for this anomaly to form. Dinosaur National Park is mostly known for not just it’s beauty, but for it’s large variety of dinosaur fossils. Even though

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    The Relation Between Birds and Dinosaurs One question that has stumped many paleontologists for centuries is, “Are birds dinosaurs?” Paleontologists have argued back and forth trying to prove or disprove each side of the theory. So far, advocates have supported their side through the facts of similar bone structures, bone organization, and the idea that dinosaurs had feathers. A common reaction that some people might have about the question is that there is no connection between the two species

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    Why dinosaurs disappeared? Sixty six million years ago the Dinosaurs died out with no clear explanation. There are many different theories to why the Dinosaurs became extinct . The possIble Causes of the mass extinction vairy widely. Some of those theories were the Asteroid theory, climate change and volcano theory. The theorys that are most clear to why the dinosaurs died out with the Most evidence is the volcano and asteroid theory , the theorys involved an asteroid hitting into earths surface

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    Carnivorous Dinosaurs Park 3 is considered one of the dangerous area in the entire Jurassic Park as it consists of Carnivorous Dinosaurs which are very dangerous if left unsupervised. Problems in Park Area 3: There are flaws and many problems in Park Area 3 such as, • The carnivorous dinosaurs are very dangerous and can become killing machines if escaped from the cages, the area lacks advanced weaponry like high voltage tazing guns specially designed for dinosaurs which only immobilizes the dinosaur. •

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    Scientists Identify First Swimming Dinosaur Sept. 11, 2014 2:01 p.m. ET In my journal article, the author talks about the Spinosaurus, the largest dinosaur to be found. The Spinosaurus is believed by scientists to be around 50 feet long. This is 9 feet longer than the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex recorded! The body shape of the Spinosaurus tells scientists that it would be and aquatic dinosaur, also that the dinosaur would have had trouble walking on land. This is amazing for a creature of this size

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    that whether dinosaurs “warm-blooded” like present-day mammals and birds, or “cold-blooded” like present day reptiles? New research on how two-legged dinosaurs walked and ran adds new evidence to the argument for warm-blooded hypothesis, and suggests that even the earliest dinosaurs could have been warm-blooded. As there are no living dinosaurs around to be experimented, most of the evidences for warm-blooded metabolism are given from modern theories about dinosaur behavior. If dinosaurs were warm-blooded

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    million years ago dinosaurs were wiped out from the land. They ruled the land for 165 million years. What happened to them? A lot of people believe that the the extinction of dinosaurs was from a huge asteroid that killed them. But theories say that was just the final blow to end off the dinosaurs. People say they were dying before that due to climate change. People are skeptical that if it missed dinosaurs and humans would have live together or would they have not. The dinosaurs died due to the climate

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