Sentences with phrase «about dinosaurs in»

I first started writing the book in 1981, and I put the project aside because at that time, there seemed to be an enormous mania about dinosaurs in America, and I did not want to book to appear to ride a current fashion.
I know both of my kids really enjoyed learning about dinosaurs in school

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You can now get dinosaur - shaped nuggets in about five different brands.
Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers: Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.
Greenley and Grisolia, the inventor team, are in town from Wisconsin to talk about the Next Big Thing — no one is allowed to spill the beans, but it's a robo - dinosaur.
@ jack3 no you have the right to believe what ever you want, but we might mock you for believing in something that has talking snakes, a story about the world flooding and being able to fit all the animals on the planet on one boat, that believes in magic, that believes a person lived in the belly of a whale, and that people coexisted with dinosaurs all without any actual proof.
As a matter of fact, I would like to thank Sister Catherine for rolling her eyes to the ceiling when we asked in 4th grade about how god made all the animals in one day and there were dinosaurs that were millions of years old while we studied fossils.
Unless we heed this warning, humanity like the dinosaurs, will also become extinct in about 100 years!!
That didn't answer the question about why dinosaurs aren't in the bible.
People going with the flow in those days were no more inclined to see a threat for humans in the fate of the dinosaur than to worry about the population explosion.
Approximately six feet long and weighing about 40 kilograms in life, the newly identified plant - eating dinosaur represents the oldest bone - headed dinosaur in North America, and possibly the world.
What Nye is trying to demonstrate is that in the US, if you go by the statistic in the story, nearly HALF of Americans believe in Adam, Eve and some business about an apple and snake; and that the world is only thousands of years old and that dinosaurs are a cosmic joke from God.
To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.
Dinosaurs, The Ice Age, aren't mentioned in The Bible because God didn't care about them.
The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.
In his book Dancing with Dinosaurs: Ministry in a Hostile and Hurting World, William Easum makes this very claim about worship and musiIn his book Dancing with Dinosaurs: Ministry in a Hostile and Hurting World, William Easum makes this very claim about worship and musiin a Hostile and Hurting World, William Easum makes this very claim about worship and music.
About as sophisticated an argument as the atheist who promises that God can't possibly exist, because otherwise why were there no dinosaurs in the bible?
This is often derided as prehistoric, which sits uncomfortably with Allardyce's known devotion to advances in conditioning, performance tracking, ProZone, and the relentless march of science into sport that makes actual dinosaurs start mumbling about how you can't build a footballer out of numbers and broccoli.
I had forgotten all about dinosaurs, the Ice Age, Adam and Eve and glaciers until I went to visit my old summer camp, the International Teen Camp at the Ecole Nouvelle in Chailly, Lausanne.
Read books and sing songs about dinosaurs, do art projects about them, visit museums to see the skeletons, go on a dinosaur dig in a sandbox for dinosaur «bones.»
From stories about dump trucks and dinosaurs to giraffes that can't dance and wild things that live in the forest, you're sure to find books that your toddler will love reading again and again.
First stop on our learning tour is the Bishop Museum where you and your kids can learn all about the history of Hawaii in a dinosaur - nugget digestible kind of way.
Some of CCM's most popular exhibits include: Dinosaur Expedition, where kids can dig for dinosaur bones in an authentic excavation pit; WaterWays, an interactive system of pulleys, pumps, and pipes showcasing the wonders of water; Kids Town, an early - learning exhibit featuring a real CTA bus, mini-grocery store and kid - sized cityscape; Pritzker Playspace, an area designed specifically for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and their parents; Play It Safe, a realistic firehouse and fire truck that invites families to learn about fire safety through play; and Skyline, a National Science Foundation - funded exhibit that explores the science, engineering, art, and technology that keep Chicago's tallest buildings sDinosaur Expedition, where kids can dig for dinosaur bones in an authentic excavation pit; WaterWays, an interactive system of pulleys, pumps, and pipes showcasing the wonders of water; Kids Town, an early - learning exhibit featuring a real CTA bus, mini-grocery store and kid - sized cityscape; Pritzker Playspace, an area designed specifically for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and their parents; Play It Safe, a realistic firehouse and fire truck that invites families to learn about fire safety through play; and Skyline, a National Science Foundation - funded exhibit that explores the science, engineering, art, and technology that keep Chicago's tallest buildings sdinosaur bones in an authentic excavation pit; WaterWays, an interactive system of pulleys, pumps, and pipes showcasing the wonders of water; Kids Town, an early - learning exhibit featuring a real CTA bus, mini-grocery store and kid - sized cityscape; Pritzker Playspace, an area designed specifically for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and their parents; Play It Safe, a realistic firehouse and fire truck that invites families to learn about fire safety through play; and Skyline, a National Science Foundation - funded exhibit that explores the science, engineering, art, and technology that keep Chicago's tallest buildings standing.
If a child wants to learn more about dinosaurs then as their teacher, you can give them months of learning all about dinosaurs; whereas, in a typical brick and mortar school your child would only be allowed the stock allotment of time on that one topic.
If I had known about this with my son, I would have to add in the dinosaurs (he had onesies that would have matched these perfectly), the gingham, and the anchors.
Read about 5 fascinating prehistoric creatures from the dinosaur experts at the ROM in Toronto.
Poor Denis Skinner, who revels in his Beast of Bolsover title, was victim of a Jurassic - era themed put down by David Cameron, when the prime minister told the Commons: «I often say to my children «No need to go to the Natural History Museum to see a dinosaur, come to the House of Commons at about half past twelve».»
In January, the prime minister called the veteran Labour MP a dinosaur after a previous question about the the Leveson Inquiry.
Standing about eight feet tall and perched above all the heads in the convention hall, this dinosaur was constructed entirely of EnviroBlox.
In his 30s, Taylor started reading about dinosaurs again and was quickly hooked.
More than a century of theory about the evolutionary history of dinosaurs has been turned on its head following the publication of new research from scientists at the University of Cambridge and Natural History Museum in London.
About 170 million years ago, huge, long - necked dinosaurs called sauropods left hundreds of footprints on the floor of a shallow saltwater lagoon on a warm island in the midlatitudes.
Some scientists are shaking up the dinosaur family tree and raising questions about which features define the ancient reptiles, Carolyn Gramling reported in «New fossils are redefining what makes a dinosaur» (SN: 3/3/18, p. 18).
Hunting the Right Light Cash got hooked on astronomy as an 8 - year - old, casting aside his earlier interests in dinosaurs and medieval history after hearing a lecture about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
A recent theory about the behaviour of the elusive stuff leads to a scenario in which dark matter could be to blame for killing off dinosaurs.
With the new reconstruction, paleontologists can now analyze the trackways and better determine things such as the sizes, motions, and walking speeds of the dinosaurs that left the footprints — which, in turn, may reveal whether an ancient predator really «chased» its prey along an ancient shoreline or merely ambled by at about the same time.
The team found that the last common ancestor for all placental mammals lived in the late Cretaceous period, about three million years before the non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago.
A MUMMIFIED dinosaur unearthed in North Dakota may contain traces of 66 - million - year old organic material, which could provide vital information about its evolution.
A medical doctor (of human patients), Rothschild is often sought out these days by paleontologists for his observations about the diseases revealed in bones (the dinosaur kind)-- and the subsequent deductions about how these long - extinct creatures might have lived.
The largest of the Yutyrannus skeletons — found in China's Liaoning province in rocks of an era famed for its feathered dinosaurs — represents an adult that in life would have measured about 9 meters long, or slightly shorter than a school bus.
As it happened, in 1998 — not long after you had started to formulate your theory of feather evolution — Chinese paleontologists discovered dinosaurs covered in fuzz, and there was quite a debate about what this stuff was.
What would inevitably follow would be a discussion about the nature of dinosaurs, of birds, of evolution and development, of the relationship of molecular biology to big changes in evolution, of how we know what we know, and whether we were justified in doing what we did.
However, flowering plants arose only about 140 million years ago, quite late in the evolution of plants, toward the end of the age of the dinosaurs, but since then have diversified spectacularly.
But the team's measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in the creatures» teeth, a sensitive paleo - thermometer, suggest that the climate where these dinosaurs lived probably averaged about 10 ° Celsius over the course of a year — substantially colder than most of the dinosaur era, and in fact close to that seen in northeastern China today, Xu notes.
Says Dr Jonah Choiniere, co-author and Senior Researcher in Dinosaur Palaeobiology at the ESI at Wits University: «This new animal shines a spotlight on southern Africa and shows us just how much more we have to learn about the ecosystems of the past, even here in our own «backyard».
When Peter Delfyett (pictured left) was in the first grade, his father took him to see the science fiction movie Journey to the Beginning of Time, a story about four boys who traveled back to the age of dinosaurs.
The world of dinosaurs was much warmer than the present day; Nasutoceratops lived in a subtropical swampy environment about 100 km from the seaway.
Like the meteorite that helped end the Cretaceous period about 65 million years ago, and possibly the reign of the dinosaurs as well, the nuclear detonation may mark for future geologists a turning point in Earth's history.
This Eophrynus prestivicii might look like a spider you'd see setting up shop in your basement, but it's actually a fossil that pre-dates the dinosaurs, having roamed the Earth about 300 million years ago.
About half of the skull, as well as parts of the dinosaur's legs, hips and backbone had been preserved in the silty hillside that once formed part of an ancient floodplain.
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