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    Have you ever thought about how Pluto was a planet and the next day it wasn’t? Well, this isn’t uncommon; scientific knowledge changes again and again. Things that we think are facts could actually just be scientific theories and could have easily been changed. We should acknowledge the change and see things that have changed like the food scale and the organization of organisms. Scientist fine new evidence every day and it has a big impact on our society. To start off, we should acknowledge the

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    Hopefully, you’ve never been one point off an A because you forgot a homework assignment, like me. It’s one of the worst feelings ever, and what happened to me last year. This story takes it to an extreme. Named “A Sound of thunder,” by Ray Bradbury, this title embellishes the butterfly effect by having five people go back in time on a dino-hunting safari. Everything is meticulously planned so the future wouldn’t change, but the main character steps on a butterfly and changes everything. A major

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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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    dinosaurs from full land dinosaurs to some who were able to live both on land and in water, semi-aquatic carnivorous dinosaurs. This era had produced some of the dinosaurs that maybe us non- paleontologist are more familiar with like the all mighty tyrannosaurus rex or the long neck. Well let me tell you, there were a lot more dinosaurs than just those two. Although the tyrannosaurs rex was an enormous dinosaur, a bigger dinosaur was discovered in 1912, the Spinosaurus. This discovery would change peoples

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    share many similarities as well as differences. “A Sound of Thunder” is about a man that assumes the name Mr. Eckels who goes on an expedition sixty-five million years into the past to hunt dinosaurs. When they are hunting they cross paths with A Tyrannosaurus rex. Eckels and the others kill the reptile and Eckels becomes traumatized. He then proceeds by stepping on a path a crushes a butterfly under his boot accidentally. He doesn’t find out until he gets back to the future to see a new timeline. “The

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    Tommysaurus Rex is a book about a boy named Eli at the beginning of the book his dog named Tommy died by being hit by a car. Since it was summer time Eli was sent to his grandfathers farm while there Eli found a cave with a Tyrannosaurus Rex who had a fear of fire. The dinosaur reminded him so much of his old dog that he called it Tommy. There was a little boy that was mean to Eli. After finding the dinosaur he did some damage and the mayor and others seen him as a threat. After everyone getting

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    In 2005, Palaeontologist Mary Schweitzer and her team made the discovery of finding original soft tissue, including blood vessels, in a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil in Montana. Many of Schweitzer's fellow scientists insisted that she had been mistaken because of previous theories of how fossils were preserved. The fossil was buried in a permeable sandstone, where groundwater could get in. Since organic material is quickly broken down in water, the soft tissue should have decayed quickly under the conditions

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    Hendrickson Ph.D., discovered some fossil bones on the side of a cliff. Her co-worker and one of the founders of The Black Hill Institution, Peter Larson, a paleontologist, helped uncover what was known as a Tyrannosaurus rex. It was named Sue, after Hendrickson. Sue was the only Tyrannosaurus Rex to be completed 80%, compared to the others found, being less then 40% complete (Hendrickson Ph.D. and Larson). Maurice Williams, the property owner of where the excavation took place, was offered $5,000

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    Dinosaurs went extinct on Earth 65 million years ago, and the only remnants of these colossal beasts are found in the Earth below. But what if somewhere on the planet was a place where dinosaurs lived, and kept surviving after the mass extinction. A Lost World. It was a cold, rainy March day when I turned on the news and heard something that was very interesting. “...and it appears that this is apart of some new species of lizard. This was found by a local scientist on the beaches of Venezuela

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    In the short story “A sound of Thunder” the main character Eckels decides he wants to go back to the future and shoot a Tyrannosaurus rex. Mr. Travis, his Safari Guide in the past takes him sixty million years to shoot this dinosaur, and he has explained all the rules and the penalties if he does disobey them. As the story goes on, all the events that happen helps the audience foreshadow that somehow Eckels will end up dying. They explained to Eckles that if anything happens to him, that they

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