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    Stereotypes Of Dinosaurs

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    excavating in bone beds it has become apparent that dinosaurs were more than singular animals and followed patterns displayed by many current animal groups when concerning family. Dinosaurs had ranks within their herds and there where often struggles of territoriality, social dominance, court-ship, and feeding (Tanke & Currie, 1998, pg. 181. These insights have been gained from light tooth scars around the snout and on top of the skulls of many dinosaurs. While family units where common among herbivores

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    Rapid climate change also ends up on the suspect list of possible dinosaur extinction events. During the latter part of the Cretaceous Period continents broke up causing volcanoes to erupt and fill the sky with gas and ash resulting in a drastic climate change (“Dinosaurs Climate Change and Biodiversity”). The shifting of continents changed the Earth’s landscape, altering weather patterns and overall climate (“Dinosaur Extinction Theories”). Also, over a long period of time, climate gradually changed

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    that there is a considerable evidence that dinosaurs were endotherms and provides three resons. In contrast, the professor states that many scientists have problem with the author arguments and she oppses each of the author's reasons. First, the article claims that one reasons for believing that dinosaurs were endotherms is that dinosayrs fossils have been discovered in polar regions. However, the professor refutes this point by saying that when dinosaurs lived in the polar regions, these regions

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    The reading and lecture, both are discussing that the dinosaurs are the endotherms- animals which keep their body temperature constant. The author of the reading passage believes that the dinosaurs are the endotherms; whereas, the lecturer does not agree with the author. She puts forth three aspects, each of which has dismissed the reading assertions. To begin with, the author of the reading asserts that the finding of the dinosaurs fossils in the polar region are convincing. The author believes

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    technology shows weariness to the usage of the machine to do the work they could have done by hand. Likewise, the Jurassic Park movie tells a story of an increased scientific presence in the scientific study of the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era. Due to the ardent work of dinosaur researchers, dinosaurs are brought back to life for the purpose of education and entertainment. With this financier and developer of the program, Jeff Hammond brings together a team of scientists, a lawyer and two of his grandchildren

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    The extinction of dinosaurs could have been caused by many different things. One main reason that is thought around the world is that dinosaurs went extinct because an asteroid fell onto earth at speeds that are too fast for the human mind to even imagine. This idea was thought when and asteroid crater was found near mexico. Also to support the facts many scientist found traces of rare metal onto the earth's surface. This metal is not very common here but is really common in outer space. Today we

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    Dinosaurs Case Study

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    Digging Dinosaurs Level A: You are swimming underwater in a lake and you see dinosaur feet in the water. You don’t want to go to the surface of the lake in case they are not friendly dinosaurs. How many dinosaurs are standing in the lake? Explain how you know. Use words and mathematical language to explain your solution.. Problem Restated: This basically states try to find all possible combinations and outcomes for this type of situation. Process: The very first thing I did was to find out that

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    The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about the possibility of the endothermia condition in dinosaurs and provides three reasons for support. However, the lecture cast doubts on the claim made by the article and opposes each of the reasons of the reading passage. First, the reading passage sustains the idea of endothermic dinosaurs on the fossils discovered in Polar Regions, meaning that only this type of animals could survived in such low temperatures. On the contrary, the lecture

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    Tim Elam Dinosaurs

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    along with his partner, Travis Bibee, entertained us with a fascinating presentation on dinosaurs. It was quite amusing to watch him through it. The jokes were absolutely “dad jokes” which I believe keep you focused on the topic. They went over dinosaurs’ characteristics, aesthetically and anatomically and they also spoke about who created the names of the fossils and creatures. Tim Elam informed us about dinosaurs being similar worldwide, with evidence of fossils, because the land was one at that

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    description about the dinosaur provided in the reading passage, the speaker claims that the hypothesis to justify the uses of the Dinosaur's crest are not entirely true and he provides new conclusions about those three presented hypothesis. Firstly, while in the reading passage it is stated that the Dinosaur's crest could be used to support the sense of smell of the Dinosaur, the speaker casts doubt on this assumption. The speaker claims that the brain structure of the Dinosaur was not developed enough

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