information on ceratosaurus?
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Ceratosaurus was a powerful predator that walked on two strong legs, had a strong, s-shaped neck, and had a short horn on its snout. It had a massive tail, a bulky body, and heavy bones. Its arms were short and it had four-finger hands (a primitive configuration) with sharp claws. It also had large eyes (and therefore probably had very good eyesight). Ceratosaurus was 15 to 20 feet long (4.5 to 6 m) long, weighing roughly 0.5 to 1 ton (500 kg to 1 tonne). It had a skull a snout horn and two short brow ridges, and bony knobs and ridges above its eyes and on the top of the head. This common hunter had large, powerful jaws with long, sharp, teeth.
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Illustration\nhttp://members.aol.com/DinoPixels/ankylo.html
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Your find worth a whole lot to a paleontologist or a geologist or to a museum. \nPlease be responsible with your country's natural treasures and visit the USGS or your nearest university (geoscience department) to protect your find from irresponsible handling. \nIf the skeleton is complete it has an immense value. If you act responsibly you may be cited in local newspapers or even in prestigious scientific journals. This is worth a lot more than the few tens of dollars you can get by selling it.
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Adapted from Dinosaurs: The Very Latest Information and Hands-On Activities From the Museum of the Rockies, by Liza Charlesworth and Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer. A Scholastic Professional Book.\n\nWay back in 1676, Robert Plot, the curator of an English museum, described and drew a thigh bone that he believed belonged to a giant man. Although that fossil disappeared without a trace, the surviving illustration suggests that it may well have been part of a "Megalosaurus." Later, in 1822, large teeth discovered in England by Mary Ann Mantell and her husband, Gideon, were thought to be the remains of a huge and extinct iguana. It wasn't until 1841 that British scientist Richard Owen came to realize that such fossils were distinct from the teeth or bones of any living creature. The ancient animals were so different, in fact, that they deserved their own name. So Owen dubbed the group "Dinosauria," which means "terrible lizards."\n\nAcross the ocean in North America, dinosaur tracks were studied in the Connecticut Valley, beginning in the 1830's. They were believed to belong to enormous ravens, freed from Noah's Ark after the Great Flood. At that time, paleontology was long on deduction and short on evidence. This was remedied when two wealthy and competitive American scientists, Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, raced to excavate fossils in the Rocky Mountain region. In the late 1800's, their separate teams, armed against Native Americans and each other, dug up tons of bones from several sites. All in all, Marsh and Cope's rivalry — known as the Bone Wars — uncovered 136 new species. And their respective fossil displays generated excitement for dinosaurs the world over.\n\nIn the 1900's, enthusiasm for dinosaurs grew steadily, attracting the attention of the scientific community. Institutions such as the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History assembled dig teams, which uncovered many rich bone beds in North America (as did their counterparts overseas). New sites in Utah revealed several different species, including "Camarasaurus," "Apatosaurus," and "Stegosaurus;" "Tyrannosaurus rex" remains were found in Montana and baby Coelosaurs in New Mexico.\n\nIn recent decades, dinosaur research continues, but the emphasis has shifted from finding and classifying these animals to analyzing and reconstructing their lives and habitats. In the late 1960's, Robert Bakker proposed that these ancient creatures may well have been as agile and energetic as warm-blooded animals. In the mid 1970's, Peter Dodson, along with James Farlow, hypothesized that they used their horns to attract the attention of females, as well as for fighting. And in the late 1970's, Jack Horner made history by identifying some of the first dinosaurs nests and eggs in North America. These important "Maiasaura" fossils helped to determine that some species nested in colonies and cared for their young.\n\nIn the past few years, several paleontologists, including Ken Carpenter, Phil Currie, and William Coombs, have identified juvenile dinosaurs that were previously thought to be adults; and David Weishampel has theorized that some dinosaurs probably used their crests and nasal passages to create sound. Each day, scientists working all over the world, in the field and in research labs, help to redefine the meaning of the world "dinosaur."
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did you try searching stuff like "Jurassic mammal, South America, Popeye"? I bet u could find some good stuff that way.
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What kind of information do you need? \nTry this site it seems to cover for amateur to professional.... .\n\nPaleozoic.org is the place where professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts trade news, information, and fossils. We are home to The Paleolist — a free email-based fossil mailing list and discussion forum for paleontologists, fossil collectors, and commercial dealers
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Hahahaha,Your funny!!!!! Dinosaurs in Alabama???? Try the whole planet at one time was inhabited by dinosaurs,Many kinds. Dinosaurs are not like indians, there are not tribs. And I am originally from Colorado,live in Navada.
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it hasnt been proven, but there are pictures out there, tho most of them are fake\n\ni personally believe that there probably once was one, but there really isnt much chance that it is still alive\n\nit was probably a decendent of some dinosaur thing\n\nso yea, id say it is, well, WAS real
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komodo dragon i think? but then i'd never heard of the other one. although...the person that wrote dinosaur is right to an extent...although they're not really lizards. another although coming up...trying to think...can't...going...out...:) i'm going to answer more of your questions. :)
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Try this website http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/jeffcorwin/carnival/frog/califnewt.html
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From the 'ceratops' I would assume it is a ceratopsian dinosaur - also known as the horned dinosaurs.\n\nCeratopsians evolved in the Jurassic, but didn't reach their height of adaptive radiation and diversity of forms until the late Cretaceous.\n\nMany Ceratopsians traveled in herds, as evidenced by the bone beds containing many individuals killed by events such as flash floods.  They were herbivorous, with a sharp, horny beak used for snipping plant material and batteries of grinding cheek teeth for processing tough plant matter.\n\nThey had a bony neck shield or frill behind their head, which may have also acted as an attachment point for massive jaw muscles.\n\nMany of them had one or more long horns on their face, probably mostly used for fending off predators.  The most famous was Triceratops, also one of the largest Ceratopsians, with three facial horns: a 3 foot nose horn and two horns over the eyes that may have been 6 feet or more in length.\n\nHowever, I am unfamiliar with the name Bayeceratops, and don't know anything about that particular beastie.\n\nUpdate:  Actually, Ceratopsians didn't evolve during the Jurassic, they are strictly Cretaceous.  Their ancestors, the Ornithopod Psittacosaurs may have lived in the late Jurassic.
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try www.bbc.co.uk.  Although, I would suggest going to your library and borrowing their copy of the movie Walking with Dinosaurs or Allosaurus.  It took me almost a year to convince my 4 year old that dinosaurs no longer live after she saw them.
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try the library or zoo for info.
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Thye lived a long time ago, and the closest living relative to the dinosaurs is the crocodile.  Crocodiles have remained unchanged for 1000's of years.
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Whoa! slow down, there is fossil evidence a transition from reptiles and birds. Most famously Archeopteryx with reptilian skull, teeth, digits, claws, vertebrae, sternum, ribs, pelvis, tail, and mainly unfused bones, and a few bird traits like a wishbone, wings and feathers!! In older sediments, there are theropod dinosaurs with skeletal similarities to Archeopteryx. In younger sediments, there are several fossils with more birds-like traits, such as Sinornis and Shenzhouraptor and dozens more (wikipedia "fossil birds").\n\nFossils of scales and feathers are very very rarely preserved. Imprints of the Archeopteryx feathers are only preserved because the fossils are embedded in very rare, very fine limestone that used to be used in lithography. It is unreasonable to demand fossil evidence of a transition between scales and feathers. That said, there are several theropod fossils with feathers that have been recently discovered in a fine Chinese deposit, things like Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx and Beipiaosaurus.\n\nBut sure, every detail of the the transition from reptiles to birds isn't documented. Other than demanding an excessive amount of evidence, I really don't know what arguments you can use, I don't think there are any true ones. But you might find some convincing sounding ones on Creationist propaganda websites. It depends on your audience.
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Brouse around this site - it is excellent.\n\nhttp://www.palaeos.com/Earth/Geography/Pangea.htm
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Quite a few pics and info too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy