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Answers to Exploration Questions: What is a dinosaur?

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1. All dinosaurs evolved from the very first dinosaur, the common ancestor. What do scientists know about this common ancestor?

Answer: Scientists haven’t found fossils of the common ancestor. However, they can determine its characteristics based on traits that are shared by all dinosaurs that were new and unique to this group of animals.

2. Archaeopteryx was the most primitive known bird. How was _Archaeopteryx_similar to modern birds? How was it different from modern birds, and more like advanced non-avian dinosaurs?

Answer: Like modern birds, Archaeopteryx had feathers, wishbones, breastbones, a crescent-shaped wrist bone, and feet with three main toes. But it also shared some features with advanced therapods that are unlike modern birds, such as a long bony tail and teeth.

3. Explain how a cladogram works.

Answer: A cladogram is a branching diagram that shows evolutionary relationships between different groups of organisms. Organisms with like features are grouped together. Every branching point represents a physical feature that’s unique to that group.

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  Sometimes it depends on the skull of the dinosaur.
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What is the likelihood of a normal person finding a fossilized dinosaur?
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Is there a connection between the dinosaur extinction and the final break up of the one global continent ?
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  No, that happened many millions of years earlier, during the early Jurassic.
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Which are the main types of dinosaurs?
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  The two main categories were Ornithischians and Saurischians.
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  Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside.
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is the GigantosauruS THE BIGGEST?
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  Not really. I can name a lot of dinosaurs that were larger than Gigantosaurs, although they were gigantic.
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Answers to Exploration Questions: What is a dinosaur?

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