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Tyler R. Lyson (born 1982 or 1983 [1]) is an American paleontologist.He is the discoverer of the dinosaur fossil Dakota, a fossilized mummified hadrosaur.He has done significant research on the evolution of turtles and on the rise of mammals after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). [2]
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. [1]
The dinosaur lived 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period, making it millions of years older than the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed the Earth some 66 million to 68 million ...
"The 2023 study assumed a 100% fill in dinosaurs such as T. rex, and that was certainly not the case," Caspar added. It is unknown how densely packed the neurons were in dinosaur brains, Caspar said.
Artist's depiction of the end-Cretaceous impact eventSince the 19th century, a significant amount of research has been conducted on the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era and set the stage for the Age of Mammals, or Cenozoic Era.
The Center of Science and Industry (COSI) was named the second-best science museum in the nation by USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.
It marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and with it the Mesozoic era, while heralding the beginning of the current era, the Cenozoic. In the geologic record, the K–Pg event is marked by a thin layer of sediment called the K–Pg boundary, Fatkito boundary or K–T boundary, which can be found throughout the world in marine and terrestrial ...