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Fossils cannot tell us this about a dinosaur?
it cannot tell the color of the dinosaur..
How are fossils part of Alberta's identity's?
Fossils from the Jurassic period and before abound in Alberta's badlands. Large dinosaurs are found often with fossils be nearly complete.
What was the first dinosaur to be found in the US?
hadrosaur
How are fossils part of Alberta's identity?
Because they are a special part of Alberta and the fossils found here are one of a kind.
How many different ways can fossils form?
When most people think of fossils they think of dinosaur skeletons and large bones, but there are many different types of fossils to be found. Palaeontologists, people who study fossils, divide them into two major types - body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils show us what a plant or animal looked like. The first type, body fossils, are the fossilised remains of an animal or plant, like bones, shells and leaves. These can be mould and cast fossils, like most of the fossilised dinosaur skeletons and big bones we see, replacement fossils, like petrified wood, or whole body fossils - mammoths caught in ice, or insects trapped in amber. Petrified wood, frozen mammoths, and insects in amber are all body fossils. The second type of fossil records the activity of an animal. Known as trace fossils, these include footprints, trackways, and coprolites (fossil poo!). Footprints and coprolite are trace fossils - they show us how an animal lived.
How many dinosaur fossils have been found?
Nobody knows how many for sure, but there are certainly thousands. You've got to remember, fossils aren't necessarily whole skeletons, they might be sections of bone, a single tooth, a fossilised egg, or even a whole nest. Sometimes we get lucky and find whole skeletons, or even scenes from the past, such as a mother looking after her eggs, who died in a sandstorm, or a triceratops and a velociraptor who both died from the wounds they inflicted on each other, fossilised as a single scene, locked in combat even in death. There are so many different varieties of dinosaur that we have discovered, and so many examples of each species, or pieces of examples, that we can't possibly be sure how many there even are. Some people say we have even only discovered 1% of all dinosaur species! So sorry, no-one really knows. Hope this helped! :)
How do fossils help us tell the story of life?
fossils tell you their life because there is a shape inside and where you found it
Why are fossils important in understanding dinosaurs today?
Through finding dinosaur fossils we can determine what they looked like and how they lived. It is important because we can they estimate how they lived and their features, it might also tell us what the world used to be like, by some of their characteristics.
What can fossils tell us about movements of the planets in the past?
To my knowledge, fossils found here on earth tell us absolutely nothing about movements of the other planets in the past. There is no way that they could.
Who discovered the first dinosaur footprints in the US?
It was a thigh bone found by Dr. Caspar Wistar
Where have fossils been found of Homo ErectusBased on where the fossils have been found what does this tell us about Homo Erectus?
Fossils of Homo erectus have been found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The distribution of these fossils suggests that Homo erectus had a wide geographic range and was able to adapt to different environments. This indicates that Homo erectus was a successful and widespread early human species.
Where in Alberta did people find dinosaur bones?
Fossils found in Alberta tell us that plants used to grow in Alberta millions of years ago, and that dinosaurs used to roam the area. Fossils show that some creatures, such as snails look much the same as they did thousands of years ago.
