Dinosaurs
(and Other Fossils) Online
[Dewey
numbers: 560s]
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Dinosaur
Hall
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At UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology
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Dino Don
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"Dinosaur art, a dinosaur dictionary, dinosaur contests, dinosaur news,
dinosaur digs, dinosaur scientists, dinosaur books, dinosaur links, The
Lost World Jurassic Park Traveling Exhibit and all manner of cool dinosaur
stuff... if it's dinosaurs you want, Dino Don's got 'em!"
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Dinosaur
Eggs
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"Join us now for an online egg hunt and catch the excitement of fossil
researchers as they “hatch” fossilized dinosaur eggs to reveal the embryos
inside. Tour our museum of dinosaur hatchlings, meet the modelers, and
preview Explorer’s forthcoming television show about the “Dinosaur Hunters”
of the Gobi desert." This show was broadcast in 1996.
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Dinosaur
Extinction
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Trying to understand why the dinosaurs became extinct has become one of
the great geological detective stories. Some recent findings from the small
Mexican village of Chicxulub have given scientists new hope that the answer
may soon be known. From a segment of the television program Newton's Apple.
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Dinosaur
Interplanetary Gazette
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A site which uses a magazine format to teach about dinosuars. "Packed with
245 million years of news."
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Dinosauricon
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A well-designed Web site with information on all non-avian dinosaurs. Includes
lists of genera, clads, places, times, years of discovery or description.
Also has pages on the ages of the Mesozoic Era, non-dinosuars, terminology,
anatomy, dino lifestyles and extinction.
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Dinosaur
Links on the Web
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A great list of links to dinosaurs sites from a professor of geoscience
at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Dinosaur
Volcano-Greenhouse Extinction Theory
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This site seeks to demonstrate how the Deccan Traps volcanoes (in India)
65 million years ago triggered greenhouse climatic warming and the extinction
of the dinosaurs.
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Dinosaur/Extinction
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At this Website you can meet the dinosaurs and examine what may have caused
their demise. Theories explored include meteor impact, volcanoes, orbital
changes, supernovae and disease causes. (Wheeling Jesuit University / NASA
Classroom of the Future)
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Dinosauria On-Line
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"Dinosauria On-Line is intended to give the reader a broader exposure to
dinosaur science. I've tried to bring together discussions about the topics
that are hot among dinosaur enthusiasts today. This allows the reader not
only to see a subject from many points of view, but allows him (sic) to
see what others think about ideas and questions that the reader has wondered
about but not been able to pose to knowledgeable people." This is a personal
site maintained by a dinosaur enthusiast.
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End of
a Legacy - How Did the Dinosaurs Meet Their Demise?
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Describes the major theories on why the dinosaurs and other animals became
extinct. Theories considered are suffocation (Pele hypothesis), global
temperature changes, recurring mass extinctions, and cosmic collision.
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Dinosaur
Extinction Theories
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This site reports on some of the theories about dinosaur extinction. Theories
discussed include: asteroid impact, volcano-greenhouse gases, ozone depletion,
Arctic Ocean overspill, thin eggshells and magnetic reversal as causes
of dinosaur extinction.
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Dinorama
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"Their footsteps echo like thunder across our imaginations, millions of
years after the last dinosaurs walked the Earth. Peer into the past for
glimpses of ancient creatures that still grip us." From the
National
Geographic Website.
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New Scientist:
The Rex Files
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This site has the latest ideas about dinosaur lifestyles, dinosaur extinction
and other mysteries. From New Scientist Planet Science,
the on-line
edition of New Scientist magazine.
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Curse of T.
Rex
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This site explores the various dinosaurs and their ecology with links to
plants, insects and other animals living at the same time the dinosaurs
"ruled the Earth."
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Dino-Roar
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"Parasaurolophus is a member of a group of duck-billed dinosaurs
known as hadrosaurs -- large, plant-eating dinosaurs that lived during
the Late Cretaceous (100 million to 65 million years ago)." This site from
Scientific American magazine enables you download computer files
which simulate the voice of a long-extinct dinosaur. The files, both audio
and video, were developed by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories
in New Mexico. Also from Sci Am: Rebuilding
the Lost World "provides new insights, technologies, and fossil
finds transform our image of dinosaurs."
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Oceans of Kansas
Paleontology
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This site includes information about fossils from the ocean that covered
the Midwestern U.S. during the Age of Dinosaurs, including information
about mosasaurs, pleisiosaurs, and pteranodons.
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Zoom Dinosaurs
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Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs.
It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It
has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic
level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information
as desired, simply by clicking on links.
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