Dinosaur Essay Examples

Dinosaurs and BirdsNat 305Christopher Meadows11-2-00Are birds really dinosaurs or are they simply related? That is a question that has gained new life in recent years due to the overwhelming facts the are pouring in from newly found fossils and studies from fossils that have been found in the past. Two groups have formed in the…

It’s hard to turn around these days without bumping into a dinosaur. You see them everywhere: dinosaur tee shirts, dinosaur movies, dinosaur toys, and even frosted-crunchy dinosaur cereal. Every museum has competed to offer an exhibit of Real! Live! Dinosaurs that munch leaves, look you in the eye, roar, and move menacingly toward you. But…

The History of DinosaursThe dinosaurs were reptiles that appeared about 230 million years ago. It’s believed that they had scaly skin and some ate plants and others ate meat. Scientists don’t know whether or not the dinosaurs were cold blooded, but they think the smaller ones were warm blooded, and the large ones were cold-blooded….

A number of different theories have been assessed throughout the course of this research to attempt to reach a conclusion as to the reason behind the extinction of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Although all arguments are credible, and supportive with educated information and data, the most conclusive theory of all is The Alvarez Asteroid Impact theory….

Dinosaurs are the large extinct reptiles of the Mesozoic Era, during which they were the dominant land animals on Earth. The term dinosaur” was proposed as a formal zoological name in 1842 by the British anatomist Sir Richard Owen, in reference to large fossil bones unearthed in southern England. The various kinds of dinosaurs are…

Theories of the Extinctions of the Dionsaurs:Dinosaurs became extincted 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, something so devastating that it altered the course of life on earth. It seems like it happened so sudden, as geologic time goes, that almost all the dinosaurs living on earth disappeared. So how did…

DinosaursWhen dinosaur bones were first found they thought that they belongedto giant lizards. The word “dinosaur” means “terrible lizard”. The largerdinosaurs must have seemed to be terrible to the smaller animals. Some ofthe first dinosaurs were only about as big as a small dog. That is how bigthe horses of that time were. Over the…

DinosaursDinosaurs: How they became extinct Something happened 65 million years ago, atthe end of the Cretaceous period, something so devastating that it altered thecourse of life on earth. It seems like it happened so sudden, as geologic timegoes, that almost all the dinosaurs living on earth disappeared. So how didthese dominant creatures just die off?…

The first question that must be posed when trying to crack the mystery of themass extinction is to ask, throughout history were there any other occurences ofthis magnitude? The answer is a resounding yes. Altogether over time there hasbeen about eight mass extinctions to large land dwelling vertebrates. The mostrecent was about ten thousand years…