Timeline
What is a fossil?
An animal bone or animal imprint that has turned to stone.
Tyrannosaurus Rex was a vegetarian.
True or False?
False
Why could whale bones have been found in a dessert?
Because it was once an inland sea.
What are two things that fossils can tell us?
What an animal might have looked like and what the environment might have been like.
Some kids in our class were able to out run an
Iguanadon, Coelophysis, or T-Rex
Coelophysis
What does a paleontologist do?
They study fossils
What do scientists think caused dinosaurs to go extinct?
A large meteor hit the Earth causing soot to block out the sun.
What did the temp. start doing at the end of the Cretaceous Period and at the beginning of the Cenozoic Era
What is got colder, started freezing
How does a fossil form?
Layers of mud, pressure, and time can turn a bone into a fossil.
Iguanadon lived in heards
true or false?
True
The Mesozoic Era was called the age of...
What were 2 adaptations that helped the Woolley mammoth survive a cold climate?
Three inches of body fat and long hair/thick fur
Can fossils tell us what color dinosaurs were?
No
What 2 types of animals are dinosaurs related to?
Reptiles and birds