Knowledge Adventure Browse or search this online encyclopedia designed for the elementary grades. Students will be able to find basic facts about when and where dinosaurs lived plus their size and weight. Personalities in Paleontology showcases 10 leading individuals, complete with a picture and short biography. An artist's depiction in the Timelines section lets you imagine a scene from a specific period and explains the habitat. To find the current theory, click on six new halls.
Vertebrate evolution is illustrated with numerous drawings.
This is one of the best places for finding general information about dinosaurs. Learn all about current research in Dinosbuzz, a newsletter that gives a thorough explanation of the theories on extinction, the relationship with birds, and the differences between fact and fiction of dinosaurs portrayed in the movies. To better understand the groups of dinosaurs, read dinosaur diversity and dispelling myths. Join Sam Welles, professor emeritus, on a narrated tour of his discovery of Dilophosaurus beginning in the summer of 1942. Find out why the name changed after several years of investigation and how he viewed Dilophosaurus as a movie star in Jurassic Park.