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Sorry about how that for the tasks 'Evaluate Situations' and 'Organised Random Search' their text is at different sizes and colours. It is because when I highlight them to change colours it does not work.
 * **How Dinosaurs REALLY became extinct!** ||
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Evaluate Situations

Some questions to ask a paeleontologist about a discovery. 1. What dinosaur bones did you find? 2.Did you find any new species of dinosaur? 3. What new information about dinosaurs did you find? 4.What types of ancient flora did you find? 5.What have you done with the fossils that you found? 6. Do you have any words to the public about your important discovery? 7.How long does it take for you to fully uncover a fossil? 8.What methods did you use to uncover the fossill? 9. Who assisted you in your adventure?

Organised Random Search Recent dinosaur discoveries such as the discovery of Therizinosaurid showed people that dinosaurs  evolved into birds. Paeleontologist Jack Horner has found recent evidence that T-Rex's may have been scavengers instead of hunters. Recent discoveries have shown that the dinosaur //Majungatholus atopus// sometimes ate dinosaurs of its own kind. __ Examples of Change Dinosaurs would not be able to live on our Earth today. Humans have cut down many trees for their own use which would mean the herbivores would probably become extinct over time with nothing to eat. This would mean there would not be sufficient sources of food for the carnivores unless they began eating mammals (including humans!!!), and if this happened humans would likely invent weapons to destroy the dinosaurs before they ate all of the human race, so dinosaurs would become extinct in this way. Because although dinosaurs are much bigger than humans, humans have the bigger brains which means that ultimately they would always be one step ahead of the dinosaurs! Dinosaurs of the sea like Ichythsaurus and Kronosaurus could possibly survive by eating animals like small sharks, baby whales, turtles and big fish. ** Dinosaurs are not always dangerous beasts. It is only the carnivorous dinosaurs that are dangerous (T-Rex,Allosaurus). The herbivourus dinosaurs are not dangerous (Brachiosaurus, Diplodicus). People who make movies always depict dinosaurs (the carnivores) as dangerous so their movie storylines are more interesting and so they make more money.. ** **__ Procrative Question __** They certainly did exist! Fossils of dinosaurs have been found all over the world and their bones have been displayed in museums. Scientists have been able to reconstruct the bones into full dinosaur skeletons so we know how they may have looked. The types of fossils are: > Analogy__ ** > A fossil is like a time capsule because it contains information from the past and because they are both found underground. When fossils or time capsules are dug up they are both perfectly preserved so that we can have a true picture of what life was like when the time capsule or fossil was buried.  > __** Attribute listing **__ > Before I started to research I thought that dinosaurs were very similar to reptiles that live on the earth today, but now that I have done some research I have found out that dinosaurs **__don't__** have much in common with modern reptiles, and they actually have many similarities with **__birds__**! In fact many scientists have done studies to show that birds have actually evolved from dinosaurs! Bet you never knew that! > The only similarities between dinosaurs and modern reptiles like crocodiles and lizards is that they have scales and they lay eggs. Dinosaurs' legs are shaped like __**human**__ legs because they are both very straight but lizards' and crocodiles' legs are sort of in a squat position like these pictures show. > > __**Paradox **__  > > || All Dinosaurs || || Scales || || the tissue that produces feathers is similar to tissue that produces scales. || > > || Bipedal Dinsoaurs (dinosaurs with 2 legs) || || Toes || || The legs and feet of bipedal dinosaurs closely resemble that of a bird, three toes forward and one toe back. || > > || All Dinosaurs || || Eggs || || Dinosaurs and birds both lay eggs || > > || All Dinosaurs || || Ankles || || Both dinosaurs and birds have legs with ankles that are about midway up the leg || > > || Aerosteon riocoloradensis || || How they breathe || || birds used a system of air sacks to pump air through the lungs. These same features have been indicated on a newly discovered species of dinosaur called Aerosteon riocoloradensis. || > > || All Dinosaurs || || Young Babies || || Dinosaurs and Birds both feed their young || > > || All Dinosaurs || || Keeled Sternum || || This is the bone at the front of the chest that attaches to the flight muscles in birds. Some dinosaurs have been shown to have a similar shaped sternum. || > > || Carnivores || || Claws || || Some birds, such as the ostrich, emu, and turacos have primitive claws on their wings, these very much resemble the claws on the front limbs of carnivourous dinosaurs || >  > ​media type="custom" key="4470097" >  >
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 * I think** **if paeleontologists had never found evidence of dinosaur existence no one would know dinosaurs existed. There would not be any movies like Jurassic Park etc. If dinosaurs did not exist we would not be doing this wiki.**
 * __ Examples Of Habit __**
 * mold fossils (a fossilized impression made in the substrate - a negative image of the organism)
 * true form fossils (fossils of the actual animal or animal part).
 * **cast fossils** (formed when a mold is filled in)
 * **trace fossils = ichnofossils** (fossilized nests, gastroliths, burrows, footprints, etc.)
 * **__ Creative Writing Skills __** ** __[[file:Creative writing skills task for E-Tasc.doc]]
 * NAME OF DINOSAUR ||  || FEATURE SHARED BY BIRDS ||   ||  ** EXPLANATION ** ||