The extinction of the dinosaurs

Ebook "The white river badlands: Geology and paleontology" preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils.

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Ebook "Gorgon: Paleontology, obsession, and the greatest catastrophe in earth's history" examines the strange fate of this little known prehistoric animal and its contemporaries, the ancestors of the turtle, the crocodile, the lizard, and eventually dinosaurs. He offers provocative theories on these mass extinctions and confronts the startling implications they hold for us.

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the book is tailored for students in the schools of education and nursing so that readings and essay writing focus on issues that are pertinent to those disciplines. it stresses analysis, inductive reasoning, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning.

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Chapter 4: Earth's past provides about fossils (What are fossils? How do fossils form? Life of a Dinosaur); Finding Clues in Fossils (What clues can you find in this fossil? How can fossils help us learn about the past? What can fossils teach us about extinct animals?..); Fossils of California

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Even though human-induced species extinction presently seems to rank low on peoples’ attention scale compared to other political and societal topics, this does not mean that its significance in earth history or its ecological consequences have diminished in any way. It must repeatedly be made clear that if current trends continue, within the next one hundred years half of all our planet’s species will most likely have become extinct.

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In July of 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy struck the planet Jupiter, depositing 7 × 1022 joules of energy, and incidentally giving rise to a series of Hollywood movies in which our own planet is threatened by an impact by a comet or asteroid. There is evidence that such an impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Left: Jupiter’s gravitational force on the near side of the comet was greater than on the far side, and this difference in force tore up the comet into a string of fragments.

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The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine during the months of April 1912-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between Native Americans and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures....

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