I was reading about dinosaurs and there were supposed to have been feathered ones that looked more like birds than giant lizards. I have also read that birds and dinosaurs shared some common features besides a few feathers. I guess the issue of whether birds came from dinosaurs has been studied by scientists for a very long time and some recent discoveries may even support the theory.
Also, near China, fossils have been found of in recent years of bird like dinosaurs, or dinosaurs that may have been covered in feathers. Scientists believe that some of these dino-birds date back about 125 million years or more and share common structures such as bones, skull and teeth with known bird species. Feather fossils have also been found to support that some of these dinosaurs were covered in feathers and may be the ancestors of the birds today. very cool and very fascinating.
I am very fascinated with Dinosaurs and other extinct animals, I imagine most people are. Even though many fossils have been found, a lot of what happened to the dinosaurs is still a mystery. I think it’s amazing that scientists can find these pieces of bone that are millions of years old and reconstruct them like a puzzle into these awesome dinosaur and fossil displays in museums.
Platybeladon Skeleton from the Gomphotheres - Extinct Elephant type animals from the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 12-1.6 million years ago. Located at the Rock and Penjing museum, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Raptor Skull
A scelidotherium skeleton on display in a glass case
Skeleton of Buitreraptor at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Piatnitzkysaurus floresi - this agile carnivore and terrible predator of Patagonia is related to the allosaurs.
This is maybe one of the first dinosaur movies ever, The dinosaur and the missing link, a prehistoric tragedy part two (1917). It was made by Thomas Edison and is 2 parts. A long way from Jurassic Park. But very cool because it is so old, silent and Black and White.
I really can not tell if the dinosaur / caveman movie was made to be funny or historic. The dinosaur in the movie is great fun, I wish it was clearer.
We see all sorts of movies with caveman battling giant dinosaurs. I was wondering if that was true so I looked it up. Here are the questions and answers about facts and movie fiction involving dinosaurs. I read all this and found out a bunch of stuff I did not know like there was no grass because it had not evolved yet.
Did people and dinosaurs live at the same time?
No! After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. However, small mammals (including shrew-sized primates) were alive at the time of the dinosaurs. Many scientists who study dinosaurs (vertebrate paleontologists) now think that birds are direct descendants of one line of carnivorous dinosaurs, and some consider that they in fact represent modern living dinosaurs. This theory remains under discussion and shows that there is still much we don’t know about dinosaurs.
When did dinosaurs become extinct?
Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), after living on Earth for about 165 million years. If all of Earth time from the very Read the rest…
