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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - Areas Of Debate
Dinosaur - Warm-blooded?.
A vigorous debate on the subject of temperature regulation in dinosaurs has been ongoing since the 1960s. Ori...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - What Is A Dinosaur?
Dinosaur - Definition.
The superorder or clade "Dinosauria" was formally named by the English scientist Richard Owen in 1842. The term ...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - Study Of Dinosaurs
Information on dinosaurs is obtained from a widely varying fields of study which include Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and the Earth Scien...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia - Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are vertebrate animals that range from reptile-like to bird-like.[1] Dinosaurs dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia - Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are vertebrate animals that range from reptile-like to bird-like.[1] Dinosaurs dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160...
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Tyrannosaurus Rex: Encyclopedia - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Tyrannosaurus rex (ty-RAN-o-sawr-us) meaning "tyrant reptile" because of its size and large teeth and claws (Greek tyrannos = tyrant + sa...
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1866 Sisyphus: Encyclopedia - 1866 Sisyphus
1866 Sisyphus (sis'-ə-fəs) is an Apollo asteroid which, at approximately 10 km in diameter, is the largest of the Earth-crossing a...
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Coprolite: Encyclopedia - Coprolite
Coprolites are fossilized feces, or animal dung. They form an important class of objects studied in the field of paleontology.
The name i...
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Caudipteryx: Encyclopedia - Caudipteryx
C. zoui Ji, Currie, Norell & Ji, 1998
C. dongi Zhou & Wang, 2000
Caudipteryx was a genus of small, peacock-sized Early ...
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Coelophysoidea: Encyclopedia - Coelophysoidea
Conservation status: Fossil
Coelophysidae
Coelophysoids were common dinosaurs of the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods. They were ...
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Disney's Animal Kingdom: Encyclopedia - Disney's Animal Kingdom
Disney's Animal Kingdom is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. It opened on April 22, 1998. Covering more than 500 acres...
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Archaeopteryx: Encyclopedia Ii - Archaeopteryx - Primitive Bird
Archaeopteryx was similar in size and shape to a magpie, with short, broad wings and a long tail. The feathers resemble those of living b...
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Hylaeosaurus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hylaeosaurus - Description And Environment
Hylaeosaurus lived about 135 million years ago, in the Valanginian to Berriasian ages of the early Cretaceous. Gideon Mantell originally ...
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Archaeopteryx: Encyclopedia Ii - Archaeopteryx - Primitive Bird
Archaeopteryx was similar in size and shape to a magpie, with short, broad wings and a long tail. The feathers resemble those of living b...
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Largest Organism: Encyclopedia Ii - Largest Organism - Extinct Animals
Some of the largest animals ever to have existed have now died out. Most of them dinosaurs, the creatures grew to enormous sizes. The evi...
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Monster: Encyclopedia Ii - Monster - Monsters In Cinema
Monster - Pre-World War II.
During the age of silent movies, representations of monsters were the size of a person played by an actor i...
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Batcave: Encyclopedia Ii - Batcave - Memorabilia
Three memorabilia items often seen in the cave are a defunct full-size mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex, and an equally large U.S. penny and ...
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Ammonite: Encyclopedia Ii - Ammonite - Classification
Originating from within the bactritoid nautiloids, Ammonites first appeared in the Late Silurian to Early Devonian (~400 million years ag...
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Plesiosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Plesiosaur - Description
The typical plesiosaur had a broad body and a short tail. They retained their ancestral two pairs of limbs, which evolved into large flip...
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Jurassic Park: Encyclopedia Ii - Jurassic Park - Biological Issues
During the movie's production, the effects supervisors acknowledged that the Velociraptors featured in the movie were sized more like the...
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Chinook Centre: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinook Centre - Chinook Centre Today
The newly renovated Chinook Centre is home to more than 200 stores, several restaurants, a bowling alley, and the city's largest movie th...
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Troodontidae: Encyclopedia Ii - Troodontidae - Physical Characteristics
They are a group of small-to medium sized theropods (~1-100kg)with exceptionally long legs, forward-pointing eyes, and a small retractile...
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The Crystal Palace: Encyclopedia Ii - The Crystal Palace - Attractions
Among the attractions were the dinosaurs, life-size models designed and made by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, situated by the Lower lakes,...
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Fictional Locations In The Godzilla Films: Encyclopedia Ii - Fictional Locations In The Godzilla Films - Adona Island
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
Long a dump for radioactive waste, Adona Island came to broader attention when a scientific team unc...
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Ammonite: Encyclopedia Ii - Ammonite - Classification
Originating from within the bactritoid nautiloids, Ammonites first appeared in the Late Silurian to Early Devonian (~400 million years ag...
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Asteroid Deflection Strategies: Encyclopedia Ii - Asteroid Deflection Strategies - Planetary Defense Timeline
Asteroid deflection strategies - Formation of Moon.
It has been theorised that Earth collided with a 'Mars' sized object in its early d...
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Asteroid Deflection Strategies: Encyclopedia Ii - Asteroid Deflection Strategies - Popular Strategies
Asteroid deflection strategies - Nuclear weapons.
One of the most often proposed solutions is firing nuclear missiles at the oncoming a...
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Asteroid Deflection Strategies: Encyclopedia Ii - Asteroid Deflection Strategies - Popular Strategies
Asteroid deflection strategies - Nuclear weapons.
One of the most often proposed solutions is firing nuclear missiles at the oncoming a...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - What Is A Dinosaur?
Dinosaur - Definition.
The superorder or clade "Dinosauria" was formally named by the English scientist Richard Owen in 1842. The term ...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - In Popular Culture
Dinosaurs were highly successful creatures; they were the dominant land animals on Earth for over 150 million years. However, it is their...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - History Of Discovery
Dinosaur fossils have been known of for millennia, although their true nature was not recognized; the Chinese considered them to be drago...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - Extinction Theories
The sudden mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, which occurred around 65 million years ago, is one of the most intriguing mysterie...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - In Popular Culture
Dinosaurs were highly successful creatures; they were the dominant land animals on Earth for over 150 million years. However, it is their...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - Extinction Theories
The sudden extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, which occurred around 65 million years ago, is one of the most intriguing problems in p...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - History Of Discovery
Dinosaur fossils have been known for millennia, though their true nature was not recognized; the Chinese considered them to be dragon bon...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - Study Of Dinosaurs
Information on dinosaurs is obtained from a variety of fields of study including Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and the Earth Sciences (whi...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - Extinction Theories
The sudden extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, which occurred around 65 million years ago, is one of the most intriguing problems in p...
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Dinosaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Dinosaur - Areas Of Debate
Dinosaur - Warm-blooded?.
Scientists have waged an ongoing and vigorous debate over temperature regulation in dinosaurs, at first over ...
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