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it cannot tell the color of the dinosaur..
Fossils are a key part of Alberta's identity due to the province's rich fossil heritage, particularly in the Badlands region. Dinosaur fossils, such as those found in Drumheller, have put Alberta on the map as a world-renowned destination for paleontological discoveries. This has shaped Alberta's image as a significant contributor to the field of paleontology and a hub for dinosaur enthusiasts and researchers.
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Because they are a special part of Alberta and the fossils found here are one of a kind.
Many countries have coal. Not so many have oil or natural gas.
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! :)
Well, isn't that just a happy little coincidence! Clayton County GA is called Jurassic Park because of the large number of dinosaur fossils found in the area. It's like a magical time machine taking us back to when these magnificent creatures roamed the Earth. Just imagine the stories these fossils could tell us!
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.
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.
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.
It was a thigh bone found by Dr. Caspar Wistar
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.