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    Dinosaur Decay

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    Dinosaurs roamed the earth many million years ago while roaming parts of Maryland for many of their history here on earth. There were many species that were predominantly found in this location. Around twelve species of dinosaur like animals can be traced back to these parts of Maryland. Dinosaurs wandered in this area from Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous periods. Maryland had a distinct climate changes during these periods. Once it was tropical and had volcanoes and changed to warm and shallow

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    Dinosaurs Are Awesome

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    I still want to see how different earth was during that time so I could confirm and add to the overall knowledge about the dinosaurs. The Cretaceous time period was the last time period in which dinosaurs are seen. This time period spanned from 144 million years ago (mya) to 66 mya; right after the Jurassic time period and before the Tertiary. This is a time when dinosaurs were at their height with many thousands of different species known or yet to be identified. Our earliest ancestors were small

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    Argument On Dinosaur

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    Argument 1: Why I believe there is dinosaurs in my backyard because back when there was dinosaurs there was a shallow sea around hallett cove south Australia which it would be where we are right now. Why is this an important point? This is an important point because you need a large amount of water to make sedimentary rocks. What factual evidence do you have to support your point (reason)? Because i have and people have found dinosaur bones around south australia befor. Argument 2: Why I

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    Dinosaurs Extinction

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    that what might be obvious at first glance: examining extinctions of the past and present allows us to predict our own potential demise. As Queen said… AOBTD As far as extinctions of the past go, dinosaurs are the best known example of worldwide devastation of a single species. The origin of the dinosaur destruction that marks the end of the Cretaceous era is a scientific enigma. Although scientists are uncertain of the exact cause of this mass extinction, according to columnist Ker Than in a 2013

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    Dinosaurs Extinction

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    back dinosaurs back from extinction. Zayn the kid who thought of this idea was kind of nervous when he and his peers made a genetically modified dinosaur egg. But he was still proud of him and his friends about their scientific creation. The government demanded more of these mutations so the United States of America would receive tons of visitors because of this new attraction which means more money for our country. The government built a huge park with many enclosures for all the dinosaurs that

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    The Good Dinosaur

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    seems to be the year for dinosaurs, what with the release of ‘Jurassic World’ earlier and now ‘The Good Dinosaur’. While ‘Jurassic World’ focused on the havoc dinosaurs could create, this movie revolves around the life of a timid and clumsy dinosaur born in a small family of working dinosaurs. Directed by Peter Sohn, the movie features actors Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, and Steve Zahn in the voice over for the dinosaurs. In today’s world dinosaurs are extinct but what if

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    Dinosaurs Endotherm

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    The passage and the lecture discuss whether dinosaurs were endotherm or not. Although the author has proposed clear demonstrations which indicate that dinosaurs were endotherm, the lecturer takes issue which what has been proposed by the author and believes that these evidence cannot prove the claim. According to the passage, dinosaurs were endotherm because they some of them lived in the polar region and only endotherm animals could live in such a cold environment. The lecturer contradicts this

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    Theropod Dinosaurs

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    the Mesozoic Era in the Jurassic Period, about 200 Ma (million years) to 146 Ma ago. All birds today were derived from theropod dinosaurs. Theropod dinosaurs include some of the most recognized dinosaurs today including, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, and Spinosaurus. The relation between theropod dinosaurs and birds came from the discovery

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    Zhenyuanlong Suni was dinosaur that was officially announced on July 2015 when the official scientific report (written by the paleontologist who studied it) was published. The dinosaur was given it’s name after Zhenyuan Sun who took it’s fossils for a deep study upon being discovered by a local farmer. The fossils were taken to Jinzhou Paleontological Museum by Zhenyuan Sun for further examination. The specimen was further studied by paleontologists Stephen Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh

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    Cribbins 1 Hook. The extinction of dinosaurs is a mystery in itself that has stumped scientists all over the world for decades, and they still look for new answers every day. Scientists know some background information, but cannot connect the dots to see the bigger picture. There was little interest in the topic until Luis and Walter Alvarez proposed a groundbreaking hypothesis, which today we call the “Alvarez Hypothesis”. This new idea of the Alvarez’s was exciting, and therefore got the media

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