Dinosaur extinction

multiple reasons yet things still change for a reasons. Mammals today aren't exactly the same as the mammals 250 million years ago. Mammals were barely classified their own group once the extinction of dinosaurs but scientist have evidence to believe mammals have been around longer than the extinction of dinosaurs, approximately 150 million years before. In 2001, researchers reported that a fossil was found in China in the year 1985. It was the remains of a tiny, furry animal that was believed to

roots of the mammalian line reach back almost 300 million years. Some of the very early mammal relatives dominated the landscape millions of years before dinosaurs appeared, and most of these species became extinct. During the age of dinosaurs, most mammals were not much bigger than small rodents. It was after the extinction of the large dinosaurs that the great diversity of mammals arose. The timeline in this hall displays the development of such key mammalian physical features as the synapsid opening

in the last sixty years. These topics include advancements in computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, genetics, computer software and programs. It also includes major field discovers related to dinosaurs, hominids and ice age mammals as well the current prevailing theories on dinosaurs.   Advancements in Modern Paleontology Kevin Martin INTRODUCTION Paleontology is in an important field in the sciences, straddling the line between biology and geology it helps us to understand past life

food, or the environment changes making it hard for some organisms to survive the new environment (Ghose). Dinosaurs started developing after a mass extinction of the Paleozoic Era just about 125 million years ago. Dinosaurs lived through the Mesozoic Era then later died off during another mass extinction about 65 million years ago, starting the beginning of the Cenozoic Era. Almost all dinosaurs and half of the other plants and animals went extinct, some scientist think that an asteroid hit the earth

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ago, long before there were any people, there were dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived on Earth from about 225 to 65 million years ago. There were many different sizes and shapes of dinosaurs. Some were meat-eaters and some were plant-eaters. Some dinosaurs were very big and some were much smaller. {draw:frame} A fossil is the remains or trace of something that was once alive, but is now long-gone and dead. We know that dinosaurs existed because of their fossil remains, mostly bones

hypothesis of an asteroid impact that would have led to mass destruction of life (plant and animal), including the extinction of the dinosaurs. This hypothesis was met with disbelief in the scientific community. Some geologists pointed out that, of the dinosaur bones that had been found up to that time, the closest to the K-T Boundary were still three meters below it, showing that dinosaurs would have already been extinct when this event occurred. Another problem was that an event of this magnitude

In this article it explains how they found the pigments inside dinosaur eggs that give them their green­blue coloring. Upon investigation, they still had the pigments of colors in them. Pigments are difficult to break down, but how could the pigments remain if the dinosaur eggs were millions of years old? In a second case they found red blood cell “look alikes” and traces of connective tissue. The discovery of the connective tissue immediately intensified research of these eggs, because long ago

The Cretaceous Period The Cretaceous period was the last and longest part of the Mesozoic Era. This period of time lasted around 79 million years! It lasted from the end of the Jurassic Period’s extinction (145 million years ago) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period (65.5 million years ago.) In this time, the earth’s continents were not in the same shape as they are today. Pangea, the supercontinent, was still drifting apart from itself. The ocean was still separating Northern Laurasia and Southern

get a very accurate measurement of the animal’s speed. Another interesting feature with the scanning methods and digital recording is that the airways and resonance chambers inside the skulls of some dinosaurs can be recreated using the three dimensional resin printer and the sounds that dinosaurs could make can be recreated, providing a good estimation of what the animals would sound like, although there are other factors involved that cannot be recreated with digital scanning and bone recreation