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    Mesozoic Era: The dinosaurs and the mammals appeared during the triassic period,Roughly 225 million years ago. The dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. The Mesozoic Era lasted about 180 million years, and is divided into three periods, the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous. The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about 252 to 66 million years ago. It is also called the Age of Reptiles, a phrase introduced by the 19th century paleontologist Gideon Mantell

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    Their large size was advantageous when it came to getting around and was the main reason why it was an apex predator. The T-Rex’s main diet consisted of herbivorous dinosaurs such as triceratops and edmontosaurus. It was easily able to hunt these because of its overpowering size and strength. The T-Rex’s tail was long and heavy in order to balance the dinosaur’s massive head and torso. To support an animal so large in size, a lot of its

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    For years, many discoveries and assumptions have been made about dinosaurs. All around the world, new dinosaur fossils are found and paleontologist continued to be baffled and amazed at the traits these creatures possessed. Naturally, researchers ask questions about the newly-discovered fossils. Was this dinosaur aquatic? Is it a herbivore or a carnivore? Did it take care of its young? There are many theories based on the appearance of fossils and what they can tell us by studying the modern day

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    Jurassic Park the movie was originally released in 1993 by a director named Steven Spielberg while on the other hand the book was released in November, 1990 by Michael Crichton. John Hammond, the owner of InGen corporations has turned an island off the coast of Costa Rica into a dinosaur paradise called Jurassic Park. The cell called “Oocytes” will multiply itself, forming an embryo. The embryo can only develop into a dinosaur if it's inserted into an egg, this process is called cloning. The characters

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    Paul Jennings Grade 1.5 This piece is a great way to introduce multimovement pieces to beginning groups. It is a programmatic work with four short movements including: Stegosaurus; Brontosaurus; Pteradactyls and The Battle (Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops). Each movement has a different mood for students to play in. The fourth movement has some "free time" sections for students to experiment with. There are several other things that may be new for students including glissandos and disonant chords

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    FacIng The Bully Did you know that dinosaurs were bullied in school? Did you know that sometimes a bigger dinosaur would actually steal and eat the lunch of a smaller one? Bullies use of size or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants, and it isn’t cool. So let me take you back to a time when dinosaurs were just starting to go to school. There was a young boy named Hector, and he was an ankylosaurus, the ones with a turtle shell and a ball to swing

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    This year writing will be a major focus. It’s important to understand grammar rules; without them your writing is difficult to understand. Once a week, we’ll begin class with one of these set of M.U.G sentences. M.U.G, by the way is an abbreviation of “ mechanics, usage, and grammar.” Some ideas that I can contribute to the book How to Survive a Boring Class is to, try not to fall asleep or not be as active as you can be. If you are not interested in the subject just try to learn some stuff before

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    n the movie Avatar everyday things such as, developed vs developing nations, genetically modified organisms and populations are shown within the movie. Now I started off with saying everyday things because these are things you see happening around the planet. Maybe not you personally but people such as environmentalist do. Even if this doesn’t particularly interest you as much as cars and stuff would. It's still nice to know how these three things can have a massive impact on environment such as

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    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to stand right in front a real live breathing dinosaur? This essay will analyze the movie “ Jurassic Park” directed by Colin Trevorrow, the movie sheds light on ancient dinosaurs and their characteristics. However, this essay will analyze the movie to determine the factual truths while at the same time verifying if Jurassic park could be a relevant source to gain knowledge of dinosaurs. The beginning of the essay speaks briefly about dinosaurs and how

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    definition of play that can be proven scientifically but this provides an alternate hypothesis to account for the markings on these bones. One example that may indicate this behavior is the tyrannosaur teeth markings found on the occipital condyle of a Triceratops. This bone has no nutritional value at all and is very hard. Since there were no shed teeth found at the site, it is not likely that the tyrannosaur was playing with food. This leads to the

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