• • Innovation = Creativity and Commercialization CASE STUDY 1: BBC’S WALKING WITH DINOSAURS HOW IT ALL STARTED I wanted people to think that dinosaurs were real animals – not monsters. The only other place you’d see really good digital images of dinosaurs was in Jurassic Park. Our idea was to create a ‘David Attenborough’ of the prehistoric world. Tim Haines‚ Series Producer Tim had been fascinated by dinosaurs almost all his life and recalls‚ ‘There was a footprint in the Tunbridge Wells
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grouping of 110 to 112 million-year-old dinosaur footprints pressed into mud from the Cretaceous Period have now been safely moved from their original setting on the grounds of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt‚ Md. Until further scientific study is possible‚ the footprints‚ now wrapped in protective material‚ will be stored on the Goddard campus. The discovery of dinosaur footprints came to light in August 2012 when well-known Maryland-based dinosaur hunter Ray Stanford brought one
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dozens of dinosaurs‚ their bones complied together‚ fossilized‚ and preserved in permafrost for eons. The startling discovery of ancient reptiles‚ also known as the “thunder lizards‚” had taken scientists by surprise because it lived and thrived in the arctic. This discovery raises questions as to how the dinosaurs were able to survived in such cold and harsh conditions. This essay will be discussing about how were fossils found‚ techniques on finding fossils‚ and whether or not dinosaurs could have
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BIOL2110- Vertebrate Zoology Word count: 1056 Dinosaur extinction: An analysis of events and theories that possibly led to the dinosaurs’ demise. Ever since the history of Earth has been studied using fossil records‚ extinctions have always been the object of fascination and interest‚ particularly the mass extinctions that occurred throughout Earth’s history. A mass extinction can be caused by disruptive global environmental changes‚ where large numbers of species have become extinct (Urry
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1 To what extent does the impact theory explain the extinction of the dinosaurs? Dominic Pharaoh 5A Promoter: Harriet Gibson 2011-2012 Dominic Pharaoh 5A Promoter: Harriet Gibson 2 Table of contents I. II. Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3 The impact theory and the alternative hypotheses .......................................................... 6 A. 1. The impact
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Extinction of Dinosaurs Two-hundred and thirty million years ago the first dinosaur-like creature roamed the earth. Dinosaurs were a very successful and diverse group‚ dominating the terrestrial environments of the earth for 160 million years. The apparently sudden mass extinction of dinosaurs marks the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. Though there is not one definitive explanation to explain dinosaurs’ extinction‚ there are various theories that attempt to account for the
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Extinction of Dinosaurs Ryan Humphries Biology 6th Period Two-hundred and thirty million years ago the first dinosaur-like creature roamed the earth. Within five million years it could be considered a dinosaur. They were soon at the top of the food chain. They populated every continent. Then 65 million years ago they vanished. The most powerful creatures ever to live on earth had become extinct. Dinosaurs were not the only victims of this "mass extinction." There were many other species
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For over 150 million years‚ dinosaurs dominated Earth. They were incredibly successful-so successful in fact that all of the other animal groups had no choice but to play a secondary role in nature. 65 million years ago‚ however‚ every species of dinosaur went extinct as well mosasaurs‚ plesiosaurs‚ pterosaurs‚ ammonites‚ and many families of brachiopods and sea sponges. Also‚ many shark species as well as most vegetation did not survive(“Dinosaur Extinction”). What could have possibly killed off
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Subject Area: Dinosaurs Content/ Grade Level: Dinosaurs and reading comprehension. This lesson is for a second or third grade. Prerequisite skills: Venn Diagram‚ research skills Strategy: Tiered Lessons Objectives: As a result of this activity the students will: understand the three major time periods (Triassic‚ Jurassic and Cretaceous)‚ when they were‚ what major characteristics were‚ and which dinosaurs lived during each time period. Supplies: Dinosaur handouts‚ dinosaur books‚ power point
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explanation as to why the amazing dinosaur creatures died millions of years ago‚ along with many other animals of the Earth’s Crustaceous Period. The extinction of the Tyrannosaurus Rex was obviously due to the same reason. Every other living species was killed sixty five million years ago. Although it is believed that the asteroid theory is the cause of extinction of the Crustaceous Period‚ we cannot be positive. The environmental effects of this problem were that the dinosaurs living during this period
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