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Dinosaurs are interesting subjects for students of all ages.
- ZoomDinosaurs.com
- 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.
- Dinosauria Online
- A tool for researching dinosaurs. Contains the Journal of Dinosaur Paleontology, a collection of essays and e-mail discussions. Some of the site may be a bit old for younger students, but much is great for research.
- The Dinosauria
- Dinosaurs occupy a vaunted niche in the public mind; the very word conjures up images of gargantuan, now-defunct beasts that ruled the Earth long ago, holding a reign of terror for some 160 million years, and then mysteriously vanishing with only their titanic bones as evidence of their existence. "Dinosaur" reaches deep into our psyche and drags out nightmares from culturally-embedded monster myths. What is the truth about dinosaurs that underlies the popular awe and mystique that shrouds them? What does modern science have to say about the dinosaurs? Are they truly obsolete, long-extinct relics of a more primitive and experimental stage in the history of life, or is there more to the Dinosauria than meets the eye?
- Dinosaurs: Fact and Fiction
- A publication from the USGS. The oldest dinosaur types are known from rocks in Argentina and Brazil and are about 230 million years old. The most primitive of these types, Eoraptor, was a small meat-eating dinosaur. Because Eoraptor's skeleton shows some advanced skeletal features, older dinosaurs may yet be found.
- Discovering Dinosaurs
- Discovering Dinosaurs, presented by Encyclopædia Britannica, is an online expedition into our paleontological past and an itinerary for its future. Through a series of thoughtful essays, it explores how our conception of dinosaurs has evolved in the 150 years since the creatures were first "discovered." We conclude that, despite 66 million years of extinction, dinosaurs continue to change as we do, because they exist as much in our science and imagination as they do deep within the ground, in scattered fossil remnants. And, as science marches on, the debate continues to this day about what we mean when we say "dinosaur." Are they related to birds or reptiles? Killed off by asteroids or disease? Warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
- Dinosaur Guide
- Guilde to Discovery channel shows and online information about dinosaurs.
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