Category: Paleontology

Between about 220 and 65 million years ago, dinosaurs on what’s now the Colorado Plateau endured dramatic geologic and climatic changes that moved continents, transformed swamplands into sand dunes and created the inland sea where the fearsome Lythronax hunted. To survive, they diverged into a wondrous array of creatures that left behind ample evidence of […]

Contemporary reptiles are still considered by many to be strange cold-blooded creatures with a strange hostile expression in beaded eyes, they are wrongly seen in this way, but in this respect, snakes (Ophidia) stand out. Although they were initially perceived by the human race as creatures from which we should learn, were bearers of knowledge […]

Karen Chin didn’t anticipate turning into a specialist on dinosaur droppings. She considered the fossilized dinosaur crap, called coprolites, as an alumni understudy, however she figured she’d branch out a short time later to seek after any of her numerous advantages. In addition, she includes with a snicker, “I would not like to get known […]

What is paleontology? Paleontology is a rich field, imbued with a long and interesting past and an even more intriguing and hopeful future. Many people think paleontology is the study of fossils. In fact, paleontology is much more. Paleontology is traditionally divided into various subdisciplines: Micropaleontology: Study of generally microscopic fossils, regardless of the group […]

What is paleontology? The simplest definition of “paleontology” is “the study of ancient life”. The field seeks information about several aspects of past organisms: “their identity and origin, their environment and evolution, and what they can tell us about the Earth’s organic and inorganic past”. What is paleontology? Paleontology, sometimes spelled palaeontology, (/peɪliɒnˈtɒlədʒi, ˌpæli-, -ən-/) is the scientific study […]

One hypothesis is that crazy youthful buffalo and mammoths stumbled into more difficulty. FOR ANCIENT MAMMALIAN MEGAFAUNA—FROM BROWN bears to buffalo and that’s only the tip of the iceberg—demise was something of a kid’s club. In any event that is the thing that you may finish up from the vaults of regular history galleries around […]

Paleontologists study fossils found in geographical developments to decide the times of plants, smaller scale life forms, creatures and antiquated civic establishments and paleontologist get paid rates averaging over $100,000 every year. Dating of fossils is gotten from the times of shake layers above and beneath the fossils in a procedure called radiometric dating, as […]