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| Qualifications for Palaeontology | 5/17/2007 | Arctica |
Q: I'm doing my GCSEs next year and I'd like to know what qualifications I would need to become a ...
A: I've never been a qualified palaeontologist, as my profile states, but nevertheless I have a pretty ...
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| Saber-toothed Tiger | 5/4/2007 | Arctica |
Q: My son is writing a research paper on how the saber-toothed Tiger became extinct? I'm having a hard ...
A: and thanks for your question. The truth is that nobody knows, but there are several theories. At ...
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| American lion (Ice Age) | 4/29/2007 | Arctica |
Q: This question concerns the last Ice age. The American lion was found 10,000 years ago between the ...
A: The American lion seems to have preferred warmer temperatures, at least latterly, though it was ...
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| Hi | 4/28/2007 | Arctica |
Q: Sorry for the long question. Anyways, for that one question, I just want to know where all the ...
A: I think the problem here lies in your conception of transitional fossils. Every animal that ever ...
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| Dinosaurs and humans? | 4/26/2007 | Arctica |
Q: The internet seems to be full of Christian websites telling us that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. ...
A: You are absolutely right - the fundamentalists who believe that humans coexisted with dinosaurs are ...
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| Baryonyx | 4/17/2007 | Arctica |
Q: My son is doing a report on Baryonyx. I have tried to help him find out as much info as possible, ...
A: The common names for male, female and young animals that are around today, such as stag, doe, faun, ...
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| Andrewsarchus | 4/10/2007 | Arctica |
Q: What was the timeline of their extinction. Thanks
A: Unfortunately Andrewsarchus is known from only one fossil, so we cannot be sure for how long the ...
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| dinosaurs | 4/8/2007 | Arctica |
Q: Why were some dinosaurs so huge?
A: The reason some dinosaurs were able to grow so large is simply because they could. Throughout the ...
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| dinosaurs | 4/8/2007 | Aja Hannah |
Q: Why were some dinosaurs so huge?
A: There is no definite answer, but theories include to outsize their predators (who also grew tall), ...
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| Urban Myth question | 3/20/2007 | Arctica |
Q: I've twice heard a story about how the Earth supposedly had far more oxygen in the air in the ...
A: SO sorry about the delay in my response - I have been away and not checking my emails. On to your ...
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| Dinosaurs | 3/3/2007 | Aja Hannah |
Q: Is it a chance to get dinosaurs back to life? Since we are able to clone other people. I hope and ...
A: Have you ever read the book Jurassic Park? It details a possibility of cloning dinosaurs. It's very ...
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| Giant barn owls | 2/23/2007 | Arctica |
Q: I would like to know as much as possible about Tyto gigantea and Tyto riveroi. I'm specially ...
A: Unfortunately I have not been able to find out much about these birds. I had not even heard of them ...
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| paleontologist / dinosaurs | 2/21/2007 | Aja Hannah |
Q: When and where was Bob Makela, a paleontoligist born? He was a partner /friend of Jack Horner and ...
A: Robert "Bob" Makela was born in Great Falls, Montana and died on June 26, 1987 while in the field ...
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| science | 1/11/2007 | Aja Hannah |
Q: what are some scientific names that I can use for a science project I'm doing
A: A good scientific name would depend on what type of dinosaur you're researching. I would check this ...
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| Evolution of Jaguars | 1/9/2007 | Arctica |
Q: I know this is sporadic but would like to know how I can portray the evloution of the jaguar. We are ...
A: You've picked a tricky challenge. How far back do you want to go in showing the evolution of the ...
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| Extinction | 1/8/2007 | Arctica |
Q: What do you believe was the main reason for the extinction of the sabre toothed cats? Also, do you ...
A: and thanks for your question. True sabre-toothed cats (genus Smilodon) lived in North and South ...
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| extiction | 12/11/2006 | Arctica |
Q: what are the possiblities of the dinosaurs and most of the Mesozoic era life coming to end because ...
A: You are absolutely correct that there was a super-volcanic eruption at the end of the Cretaceous. ...
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| Peteinosaurus | 12/7/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: how come this website and every other website never gives enough information?
A: I find your question a bit rude, but let me try to explain for us. Some of us are away a lot of the ...
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| jurassic park movie question . please answer | 12/1/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: What was the vital mistake that the scientist's make when creating the dinosaurs? Very Helpful if ...
A: I don't know which mistake you're referring to, but if you could be more specific I could help ...
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| lesothosaurus | 11/11/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: I am doing a report on dinosaurs and I need to kno the scientific and common name of the ...
A: In all my knowledge, I have not heard of a more common name for this dinosaur than lesothosaurus. I ...
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| dinosaurs | 10/10/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: why are dinosaurs so important
A: I've been quite overwhelmed. But, in any case, dinosaurs are important to evolution theories, to ...
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| dinosaurs scientific names and their evolution | 10/6/2006 | Arctica |
Q: .please help me....?
A: I think you will find the following link useful: http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/dinosi.htm If ...
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| A follow up on ' Do modern birds still possess an open acetabulum?' | 10/2/2006 | Arctica |
Q: First of all, I'd like to thank you for your quick and informative reply. You said that modern ...
A: It seems I'm not such a good expert after all - I made a deductive leap after insufficient research, ...
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| Do modern birds still possess an open acetabulum? | 10/1/2006 | Arctica |
Q: As I understand it, dinosaurs are characterised by this key trait of an open acetabulum in the ...
A: The perforate acetabulum in dinosaurs is shared by primitive birds, including Archaeopteryx, but the ...
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| paleontology | 9/7/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: How can you tell how old a(an) fossil is?
A: There are a few ways to tell. You can get the general gist by seeing where the fossil is in the ...
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| Dinosaur models | 8/21/2006 | Arctica |
Q: In other words what makes a good dinosuar model?
A: Dinosaur models vary greatly in terms of accuracy. The models you are likely to find in toy shops ...
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| girls | 8/21/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: how do i go to a place that they have sex?
A: Actually, we don't know much about how dinosaurs had sex. We only speculate from looking at other ...
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| dinosaurs | 8/21/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: how were they born?
A: Dinosaurs, after being concieved and growing inside the mother for a period of time, were hatched ...
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| Dinosaurs | 8/9/2006 | Arctica |
Q: We all know that there are still single celled organisms on our planet. Are these Cells evolving, ...
A: Single-celled organisms are evolving all the time. In fact they tend to evolve much more quickly ...
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| Dinosaurs | 8/7/2006 | Arctica |
Q: the reason being is my theroy is they could have cauesed global warming of a kind, so the tempreture ...
A: I'm afraid there is no possibility of the dinosaurs causing global warming simply by virtue of their ...
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| Baryonyx walkeri | 8/4/2006 | Arctica |
Q: While I was searching and reading through a book called The Dinosaur Investigator's Handbook, they ...
A: If you want to see what Baryonyx looked like, just type "baryonyx" into Google's image search. Or ...
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| prehistoric animals | 7/6/2006 | Arctica |
Q: thank you
A: The largest species of mammoth was the imperial mammoth, which lived in California. It grew to a ...
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| sabre toothed tiger | 7/5/2006 | Arctica |
Q: were dinosaurs and sabre toothed tigers ever alive at the same time?were any non-dinosaur creatures ...
A: The answer to your question, if I follow the traditional definition of the word "dinosaur", is: no, ...
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| britishmuseum | 6/17/2006 | Arctica |
Q: Hallo -I would like to about the tyrannosaurus skeleton that was once dislayed in the british museum ...
A: The skeleton was originally called Dynamosaurus, and this would have been the correct name for T. ...
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| dinosaurfossils | 6/10/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: I would like to know if you knew the exact length it is because the paleontologist never mentioned ...
A: Sorry for the delay. I was out on business. Thank you for your question. One vertebra of the ...
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| dinosaurbones | 6/2/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: Hallo all experts. I would like to ask you what is known of the species triceratops maximus and ...
A: To start off Triceratops maximus was a name coined by Barnum Brown to originally describe scraps of ...
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| megalosaurus | 5/13/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: I had visited another musuem where its original partial remains are.Therefore can you tell me how ...
A: The reconstructed megalosaurus you saw at the first museum were speculations of what it might have ...
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| dinosaurs weight | 5/11/2006 | Arctica |
Q: Hallo-I would like to ask you what is known about the dinosaur called pelorosaurus.I would also like ...
A: Pelorosaurus was actually one of the first dinosaurs to be found (in 1850, in England). It is a ...
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| apatosaurus | 4/26/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: The old appearance of anklylosaurus shows it with spikes sticking out from the side and two spikes ...
A: I was away on business. As for your first question, there are many types of anklylosaurus. Some were ...
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| dinosaurlinks | 4/18/2006 | Aja Hannah |
Q: Thank you
A: The best help I can give you is to use wikipedia site or use a videos or books found at your library ...
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