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How Living Things from the Past Compare with those of today by Lauren Dunn. Science Chapter 3, Lesson 3. Fossil-Evidence of a plant or animal that lived long ago.
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How Living Things from the Past Compare with those of today by Lauren Dunn Science Chapter 3, Lesson 3
Fossil-Evidence of a plant or animal that lived long ago This happens to be a real skeleton of the most famous and most ferocious dinosaur…..Tyrannosaurus Rex. This predator lived about 65 million years ago.
Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils You can go see real dinosaur skeletons and fossils at museums, where they are on display
This is what the tyrannosaurus looked like, fossils help us determine this
Dinosaurs left evidence of their existence in their bones To the left we have a skeletal fossil of the Triceratops, to the right is an artist’s rendering of what it may have looked like
Extinction-when all members of a certain kind of living things die out The Saber Tooth Cat-Extinct
Wooly Mammoth This prehistoric creature had tusks that were 16 feet long
The Megalodon Shark-yes these teeth are real and this would be the size of the jaw
Megalodon-if this picture was real, that is about what you might see
Endangered Species-species which are close to becoming extinct The eagle was an endangered species
Endangered Species Giant Pandas were almost extinct at one point