Jennifer Allen
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Hello. I like writing about interesting and unique facts about science and history like four-tusked Mastodons and droughts from the Bronze Age. Check out my website at historyscorner.weebly.com
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Walking the Dinosaur Pathways
Have you ever wondered what it was like when dinosaurs walked those creek beds down to the edge of the Western Interior Seaways? We may never know what it was like to feel the humid air that they felt, see the flora and fauna of a tropical jungle leading down to it, or watch the rumble of a nearby volcano spewing and gurgling out lava but we can get a really good idea. Come along with me as we cover a few of the big spots along the Seaway from Dinosaur tracks to fossil beds, where we can see their tracks and where they lived before modern humans walked on the earth.
By Jennifer Allen3 years ago in FYI
Return of the Thunder Lizard
Up until the 1870s, there were about 9 specimens of dinosaurs found in North America. They were not classified very well, and some were mixed bones with another dinosaurs. It was a mess! The first man to discover a full dinosaur skeleton was a man named Foulke who was working for a man named Edward Cope. They were working on a dig in some Marl pits in New Jersey and came across a complete Hadrosaurus. Also working for Cope were two men who were taking fossils from the site and selling to a rival from New York, Charles Marsh of Yale’s Peabody Natural History Museum. The problem was that Marsh hardly ever paid on time and he was miserly when it came to sharing information. This was the beginning of Paleontology in the United States and the start of the great Bone Wars!
By Jennifer Allen3 years ago in Earth
