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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld's Oldest Penguin Fossils Suggest Birds Outlived Dinos
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Science, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the oldest penguin fossils yet found suggesting that at least some ancestor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen Monsters Ruled the Deep
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Geography, Life Sciences, Science, History-Social ScienceThis National Geographic Magazine feature focuses on ancient reptiles of the sea. There is an excerpt from an article about the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeb Geological Time Machine
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Earth & Space ScienceThis resource, from the University of California, Berkley Museum of Paleontology, features a geologic time machine. Visitors can...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDo Pakistan Fossils Alter Path of Lemur Evolution?
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Life Sciences, Science, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the controversial discovery in Pakistan of fossils that may be an Asian-ori...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld's Largest Rodent: Buffalo-Size Fossil Discovered
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Life Sciences, Science, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about an exciting paleontological discovery. The fossil remains of a giant rodent...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFantastic Fossil: Examining the Impact of Tiktaalik on the World of Evolution
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Religion, Reading Comprehension, American Democracy, Life Sciences and 5 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the discovery of a transitional animal and discus...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Bizarre" New Dinosaur Shows Evolution to Plant Eating, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Science, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the discovery of the 125-million-year old fossils of Falcarius utahensis, a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTiny Fossil from Early Jurassic Fills New Niche in Mammal Evolution
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesThe fossil of a paper clip-size animal that lived about the same time as dinosaurs offers important clues to the evolution of ma...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFossils Challenge Theory of Rapid Animal Evolution in Cambrian
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, Life Sciences, Science, History-Social ScienceMost major animal groups appear for the first time in the fossil record some 545 million years ago in a relatively short period ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkApe Fossil Found in Thailand-May Be Orang Ancestor
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Life Sciences, Science, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the discovery of a fossil ape that dates back 10 to 13.5 million years and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Killer" Fossil Find May Rewrite Story of Whale Evolution
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Life Sciences, Science, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the fossil discovery of an early baleen whale with huge eyes and killer jaw...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhere To Dig
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Science, Earth & Space ScienceIn this PBS interactive activity, students must choose which type of rock is most likely to contain dinosaur fossils. They also ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRiddle of the Bones
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Electives, Life Sciences, Science, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from PBS, features an interactive presentation about our early human ancestors. The focus is on a handful of foss...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAncient '"Chewing" Reptile Linked With Leap in Animal Diversity
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesResearchers have discovered the first known example of a land-based vertebrate that had the ability to fully chew and digest pla...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHuman Fossil Adds Fuel to Evolution Debate
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Electives, American Democracy, Life Sciences, Science and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about the discovery in Ethiopia of a one-million-year-old partial skull. Research...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew Fossils Help Piece Together Human Origins
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Electives, American Democracy, Life Sciences, Science and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about the discovery of hominid fossils that were unearthed with rhino, giraffe, m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeird Australia Rocks Are Earliest Signs of Life, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Electives, American Democracy, Life Sciences, Science and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about the discovery of weird cone- and egg-carton-shaped formations in Western Au...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFossil Implies Our Early Kin Lived in Trees, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Life Sciences, Science, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about early tree-dwelling mammals. The discovery of a fossil skeleton of a 56-mil...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDino-Era Earth Had Polar Ice, Low Sea Level, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Earth & Space Science, Science, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about a study suggesting that polar ice existed 50 to 100 million years ago, a ti...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0