Dinosaur

While in south Georgia sweltering under the heat for her daughter Amanda’s state swimming competition Friday, Melissa Bramlett found the town’s reptile population to be a little too friendly. During the break between preliminaries and afternoon finals, the Bramlett’s were seeking relief from the heat in their hotel room when a fellow swim mom called saying she had just seen a snake slither under her van. “Her daughter had seen the snake and said, ‘Wow that’s a big snake’ and then it went under

http://www.space.com/834-mystery-arizona-meteor-crater-solved.html Published on March 9, 2005 by Robert Roy Britt there is a new theory that explains how the meteor crater near Winslow Arizona was formed. The asteroid that created the crater is believed to have been traveling much slower than originally thought. The article suggests that the meteor was traveling at speeds greater than ten time the speed of a bullet shot from a rifle. The main mystery surrounding this impact event concerns the fact

Film Study Compare/Contrast Essay While the book and movie version of Jurassic Park had its similarities and differences, I preferred the movie better because I felt like the visuals, music, and sound effects just made me feel like I was right there with the characters. There were a lot of similarities and differences in the movie and the book. I think that one of the most important similarities between the book and movies was that Dennis Nedry used the same bug he did in the movie as well

First Assignment – Summary and critique by Cheryl Chi Yue Leung York University NATS 1840 15th January 2016 The article "Twilight Of Mammoths" by Paul S. Martin appears in Ice Age Extinctions And The Rewilding Of America. According to Martin’s perspectives he has indicated that extinction swept the way approximately half of 200 species of large mammals, for example, anteaters and sloths in the last 50,000 years, late in Quaternary. By establishing dates from the fossils of different

Throughout the history of earth, several mass extinction events have occurred, thus changing life on earth forever. Elizabeth Kolbert, in her novel The Sixth Extinction, defines mass extinctions as "...events that eliminate a significant proportion of the world's biota in a geologically insignificant amount of time" (Kolbert 16). Five major mass extinctions have transpired that significantly changed biodiversity. Kolbert argues that Earth currently faces a Sixth mass extinction, one caused by humans

In the article about How the Horned Lizard Got its horns the main hypothesis proposed by Young et. al. (2004) is how horned lizards used their horns to protect themselves from predators and how selection favors the length of their horns (Young et. al. 2004). The thing that the researchers wanted to test is if the length of the horns made an impact on the survivability of the horned lizards (Young et. al. (2004)). They tested this by measuring the length of the horned lizards from a group of living

The Ground Sloth was one of the first extinct animals to be discovered. The Ground Sloth was one of the first breeds of sloth ever known to mankind. The scientific name is Megatherium, but it is mostly known as the Giant Ground sloth. The Ground Sloth had specific characteristics as well as environmental characteristics that shaped its way of life and they went extinct. The Ground Sloth anatomy was very helpful to it’s lifestyle. The ground sloths massive size, acted as protection. According to San

The stereotype of humans and dinosaurs; dinosaurs eat humans. The stereotype that dinosaurs eat humans is changed in the movie The Good Dinosaur where there is a relationship between the humans and the dinosaurs that would be considered unique. The characters Arlo and Spot demonstrate that the friendship between two different creatures can create a strong bond. The heartwarming film, The Good Dinosaur by Peter Sohn illustrates that without friendship and the archetypal companion group, Arlo wouldn’t

In order to understand the relationship of ancient life such as dinosaurs, fossils are necessary. Though they are vital in the process of classifying relatedness, they can prove to be extremely problematic in regards to variation. Biologically speaking, variation could have an abundance of explanations for why fossils, for example, are shaped they way they are. The question of the nature of these variation is where the problems begin. This specific controversy stems from the the question of how Triceratops

Brian Wei Bio-X Make-up Work Billy Lee Dr. Jin Billy Lee is a professor of Genetics with a particular interest not in the DNA genome, but in RNA variation and its phenotypic effects. He is especially interested in the phenomenon of post-transcriptional RNA editing and its function. RNA editing has been demonstrated to be necessary for proper development and function, but its role is not well understood. The first paper, “Cis Regulatory Effects on A-to-I RNA Editing in Related Drosophila Species