Dinosaurs earn their names from how they look, where they are found and even who found them.(Image credit: Francisco Gascó under the direction of Mike Taylor and Matt Wedel) Dinosaurs earn their names just like Tiny Tim, Andre the Giant and William “The Fridge” Perry. Sadly, dino names...
Sir Richard Owen came up with the name dinosaur in 1841 to describe the fossils of extinct reptiles. He coined the word by combining the Greek words 'deinos', which means terrible, and 'sauros', which means lizard.Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya...
Paleontologists study their fossil remains to learn about the amazing prehistoric world of dinosaurs. The dinosaurs became extinct during a time of high volcanic and land plate activity. There are a lot of theories why the extinction occurred. The most widely accepted theory is that an asteroid ...
There is a large list of far-fetched to entertaining theories (some possibly suggested tongue-in-cheek), including extinction by parasites, slipped vertebral discs, hormonal disorders, shrinking brains, chronic constipation, over specialisation, inability to change, becoming too large, senility, hyper...
For this portfolio, White and Naish run a tight ship: twenty artists are given ten pages each. Contributors hail predominantly from North America, South America, and Europe, with one Australian thrown into the mix. Looking at the list, there are a few old hands but the focus is on a you...
Pg: the Paleogene period, which is the period immediately following the Cretaceous according to the ICS’s new list of geological periods. Please note, the Tertiary and Paleogene are not really interchangeable terms. They have the same starting point, but different end points. Geologists and paleo...
Ornithopods—small- to medium-sized, bipedal, plant-eating dinosaurs—were some of the most common vertebrate animals of the later Mesozoic Era. On the following slides, you'll find pictures and detailed profiles of over 70 ornithopod dinosaurs, ranging from A (Abrictosaurus) to Z (Zalmoxes...
However, vertebrate palaeontologists generally believe the mammals were too small to have accomplished this feat.49 There is a large list of far-fetched to entertaining theories (some possibly suggested tongue-in-cheek), including extinction by parasites, slipped vertebral discs, hormonal disorders, ...