The second is a senior undergraduate and graduate level offering, Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.
Dinosaurs are the most celebrated fossil organisms.
These remarkably diverse and successful animals inhabited every major continent, persisted more than 150 million years, and evolved numerous bizarre forms of varying body sizes. This course will present an overview of the major dinosaur groups. Topics include feeding adaptations, social behavior, evolution, extinction, and the origin of birds. Dinosaurs are also used as a vehicle to address the nature of science and how scientists go about developing and testing ideas. One fieldtrip to Dinosaur National Monument, Vernal, Utah. 2.