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What to Wear: Hunting for Dinosaur Bones in Alberta
This summer I had the privilege of visiting Calgary, Alberta and going on dinosaur bone dig in Dinosaur Provincial Park. This is a trip that anyone who loves history, dinosaurs or the outdoors needs to do. The cost to go on a dig is actually far less than I would have guessed, making it a […]
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Why Birds Were The Only Dinosaurs To Survive Mass Extinction
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Bird ancestors survived the mass extinction during the dinosaur era when the massive dinos couldn’t survive. Was it because they could fly, they has lighter bones or some other adaptation? Canadian scientists believe it is because birds had beaks!
66 million years ago, the scientists say, an asteroid hit the Earth and started a prolonged ‘nuclear winter’. This happened during the cretaceous period when many kinds of dinosaurs lived, some of them just like the ones Junior Explorers saw in Mission Dinosaur Dig.
The asteroid started off a series of forest fires, killing the animals and plants. The dust and debris might have covered the sky so much that the surviving plants died too due to lack of sunlight.
“While you would think this would be a great time to be if you were a meat-eating dinosaur, because there would be all these dead animals, that’s really a short-term resource,” said Larson, assistant curator at Alberta’s Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto. “The remains of all of these extinct animals would have relatively quickly decayed away.”
The researchers say that the only thing left to eat during this time would have been seeds as plants produce hundreds of seeds.
Most dinosaurs would have been unable to crack open these seeds using their sharp, pointed teeth. But the ancestors of modern birds, with their beaks, could happily keep on feasting as other animals starved.
The scientists also explain that this is the reason why dinosaurs called maniraptorans – that closely resemble birds didn’t survive the mass extinction but birds did. Maniraptorans had teeth to eat worms, insects and meat but not beaks that could break open seeds.
There is a mysterious dinosaur to be discovered in Mission Dinosaur Dig as a Junior Explorer. Do you want your child to experience the thrill of dinosaur discovery fist hand? Then join Junior Explorers today!
Meet Titanosaur - The Largest Dinosaur To Be Ever Discovered!
Have you heard of the Titanosaur? It’s believed to be the biggest dinosaur to be discovered yet. So big, that it will not fit in one single room of the Natural History museum! It is 20 feet tall, 122 feet long and weighs 70 tons!
Researchers dug up the bones of a titanosaur in a desert region of Argentine Patagonia, after a farmer found what he suspected to be fossils. The Titanosaur is now displayed at the American Museum of Natural History.
Show Your Junior Explorer
Here’s a neat infographic by BBC, which helps understand how big the Titanosaur is.
Here’s also a very interesting first look of the titanosaur and the story behind it’s discovery. A must watch for every dinosaur fan!
Want more dinosaurs? See if you can identify these 5 recently discovered dinosaurs.
Has your child played Mission Dinosaur Dig yet? It’s the coolest way to learn about dinosaurs and also ID the fossils of a dinosaur like a real paleontologist. Become a Junior Explorer today!
What’s it really like to go on a dinosaur dig?
Hi guys! This was a short minidoc I did a couple of years ago for The BYU Museum of Paleontology about daily life on a dinosaur dig site. Enjoy!
Can You I.D. A Dinosaur From Its Fossils?
Kia and Kyle were at the Mission Center when they found something really strange. At first, it looked like a simple piece of rock but when Kyle took a closer look, he was sure he was holding an animal fossil! Could that be a dinosaur?!
That’s when Kia and Kyle went to meet Dr. Robertson, a palaeontologist at the Museum of Natural History. They’re sure they’ve found a fossil of a dinosaur and Dr. Robertson is going to study it and help them identify it!
Won’t you love to join Kia and Kyle in this pre-historic adventure?
Mission Dinosaur Dig is the perfect way for your child to learn about their favorite dinosaurs and how they lived millions of years ago. What’s special about this mission is that they not only get to see but also actually work like a paleontologist on the field, helping dig a dinosaur’s remains and identifying it! Will it be a stegosaurus, a tricerotops or a T. Rex your Junior Explorer excavates? You can find out through the kit sent at home and the activities online!
If your child is not a Junior Explorer, you can get him or her subscribed right now! This is the only subscription program that is helping children connect with nature and wildlife through an adventurous mission each month!
Arriving At Home
In the kit delivered home to a Junior Explorer you will find everything needed to complete Mission Dinosaur Dig at home and online.
The kit includes,
Interesting activities that help learn about dinosaurs, fossils and animals that lived with the dinos and can be still found on the planet!
Fun collectibles including dinosaur figurines, tattoos, stickers, 3D puzzles!
A dinosaur fact and activity book to keep your curious Junior Explorer busy for a long time.
Steps to login and play the mission online at www.juniorexplorers.com, with their trusted friends and fellow explorers – Kia and Kyle!
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Questions For Your Child
Mission over? That’s a good time to ask what your child learned while having lots of fun through the offline and online experience!
What are fossils? How do they form?
What does a paleontologist usually do?
Which is their favorite dinosaur?
Can they name some of the tools used for digging dinosaur bones?
Did frogs live when dinosaurs roamed the earth?
Were the dinosaurs herbivores or carnivores?
Learning For Life
5 important things your child will learn after playing Mission Dinosaur Dig,
So far about 700 dinosaur species have been found, but there are many more that are still being discovered!
Amphibians like frogs were living on land even before dinosaurs.
A T.Rex had 60 bone-crunching teeth!
Fossils are formed when plant or animal remains get buried in sediments and remain in the same state for millions of years.
A paleontologist studies fossils. They sometimes dig bones from excavation sites and try to study and identify the animal or plant fossil they found.
AND a better understanding of the pre-historic world!
Junior Explorers is an award winning subscription program that’s changing the way children see this world. Let your child be a part of this big mission to create the new generation of environmental stewards. Join today!