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    “Dinosaurs. Earth shakers and plunderers. Killing machines. The original experts in martial arts.” – (The Dinosaurs: The Monsters Emerge, PBS, 1992.) Most people, especially kids, know dinosaurs as big movie monsters and hostile creatures for the good guys to fight. But I never possessed that interest. My attraction came from the fact that these “alien” creatures beyond any human imagination were real animals that actually lived on this planet. That animals such as Therizinosaurus, Deinocheirus

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    Nimon Dong Professor Jurdy Death of the Dinosaur 3 December 2016 The Double Beamed Dinosaur The Diplodocus emerged, 155.7 to 150.8 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period and primarily roamed Western North America (Gee et al., 2003). First discovered in Cañon City, Colorado in 1877 by Samuel Wendell Williston, the partial Diplodocus fossils, hind limb and tail vertebras, indicated an unusual body construction with two rows of chevron bones on the underside of its tail. Due to this

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    What is so attractive about When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death to young readers are the colorful dinosaur characters that share many thoughts and feelings about the topic of death. This children’s book does not tell a specific story; instead, it discusses children’s fears and curiosity on the difficult subject of death. Explaining death to a child is never easy, especially for a parent; however, Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown aids in that understanding thoroughly well. It does

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    The differences between Ceratopsian dinosaurs can be identified by examining size, shape of crest and number and placement of horns. Deinonychus had a curved claw on one toe, several inches long, that was used for jumping onto and wounding large prey when hunting in packs. Dunkleosteus was a massive cannibalistic armored fish that swam the oceans millions of years before anything even vaguely resembling human life walked the earth. These are all things that I would gladly have informed you of when

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    The Dilophosaurus was a meat eating dinosaur or carnivore. The name of the Dilophosaurus means “Double Crested Lizard” and was discovered by Sam Welles in Arizona, 1942. The Dilophosaurus got its name from the two crest parallel of each other going down its head and the size from head to tail was about twenty feet long and around six to five feet tall it also weight around one thousand pounds. It is believed to have a top speed from anywhere from fifteen to twenty miles per hour due to the powerful

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    rise of the dinosaurs is one of the most fascinating periods in the history of our planet. It is often the subject brings about a child 's first exposure to science. When the children learn about the prehistoric beast attractive, one of their main requirements related to the cause of their destruction, What could have led to the collapse of all creatures, living very successful for millions of years? This question has plagued experts and curious children as well as for decades Dinosaurs: How they became

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    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 we know they exist. The film is based on the recreation of dinosaurs and people's

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    We know that there is evidence that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. The only thing dinosaurs left behind is their bones that has helped us learn more about them like what they might have looked like, what they ate, and where they lived but the biggest mystery that still has not been explained is, what exactly caused this mass extinction of dinosaurs to be wiped off the face of the earth?Dinosaurs lived for 165 millions years until 66 million years ago when they went extinct. In this mass extinction

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    and its life-forms during the Triassic but the most celebrated event was the evolution of dinosaurs. The Triassic Period was the first period of the Mesozoic Era, and ran from 248 to 200 million years ago.Scientists first began studying dinosaurs during the 1820s, when they discovered the bones of a large land reptile buried in the English countryside. In 1842, Sir Richard Owen, first made the term “dinosaur.” Owen had examined bones from three different creatures. Each of them lived on land, was

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    Imagine dinosaurs roaming the Earth minding their own business. Imagine them looking up to see a fiery, red ball of death. Imagine realizing that the blazing ball is an asteroid. Imagine it hitting the ground and nothing can be seen. The dinosaurs didn’t have to imagine that an asteroid was propelling down at them. They experienced it. Scientists have studied and calculated everything to know about the asteroid, the proof that it happened, what happened at the first impact, what resulted

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