The Great Dinosaur Hunt Film

  1. First dinosaur fossils found in the gypsum mines in Momrat, France in 1796.
  2. Fossils taken to Georges Cuvier at the Paris Museum of Natural History. He coins the term“dinosaur” and is the first to discuss extinction.
  3. Steven J. Gould of Harvard University is the leading evolutionary biologist in the world today.
  4. The “Bone Wars” in Wyoming and Colorado in 1877 unearthed 130 new species of dinosaurs.
  5. Edward Cope and O. C. Marsh competed with each other for fossils.
  6. One of the best collections in the world today is at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta, Canada.
  7. Dr. Robert Bakker of the Museum of the University of Colorado at Boulder is one of the major paleontologists in the world today. He discovered that dinosaurs were warm blooded and much about their physiology.
  8. Dinosaur footprints are preserved at Dinosaur Valley State Park near Glenrose, Texas. Prints were worked on in 1940 by Dr. Roland T. Byrd of the American Museum of Natural History. He collected tracks.
  9. Dr. Jack Horner of the Museum of the Rockies discovered dinosaur nests and eggs. He discovered 2 species, Hypsilophodon and Myosora. The first left their nests early the second were nest bound and cared for by the parents. The predator Truledon fed on the latter as young.
  10. First dinosaur nests and eggs were found by Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia in 1922.
  11. Dr. Philip Curry of the Royal Tyrell Museum studies the migrations of Centrasaurus and scavenger species.
  12. Dr. David Wisenhample of Johns Hopkins University studies the sound making capacity of Parasaurolophus and other related species.
  13. Dr. Robert Bakker says that dinosaurs are the direct ancestors of the @ 8,400 species of modern birds. He also discovered the new species of dinosaur called Nanotyrannus at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. It is much like a small Tyrannosaurus rex.
  14. By the end of the Cretaceous period of geological history @ 65 million years ago all dinosaurs were extinct. Their extinction was caused by: The advent of flowering plants, epidemic disease, and the asteroid strike @ 65 million years ago. The asteroid strike wiped out not only the dinosaurs but also 1/2 of all life on the planet. We now know that @ 90% of all species that have ever existed are extinct. Extinction is a required and natural part of the processes of life on the planet.
  15. Before he became president Thomas Jefferson argued against the possibility of extinction.