81. BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts animals prehistoric Life Human Body Mind Genes Space Hot Topics We ve hundreds of animals to choose from. Please enter your keyword below. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index SUNDAY 25th September 2005 Text only Animals Prehistoric Life Space ... BBC Homepage In Animals Birds Mammals UK wildlife ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! You are here: BBC Animals Wildfacts Second only to polar bears, brown bears are the largest land carnivores. A subspecies called the Kodiak bear is particularly impressive, and can reach similar sizes to its polar cousin. Male sand lizards fight vigorously for females. They grab the neck of their opponent with their jaws and then roll over and over each other, until one, usually the smaller lizard, retreats. We've hundreds of animals to choose from. Please enter your keyword below. You can search for animals by their common or scientific name. Or select one or more of the options below to refine your search. Group Aardvarks Amphibians Annelids Anteaters and relatives Bats Bears Birds Camels and relatives Cats Cattle and relatives Chevrotains Chilopoda Civets and relatives Crustaceans Deer Dogs Dugongs and manatees Echinoderms Elephants Elephant shrews Extinct animals Flying lemurs Garden birds Giraffes and okapis Hippopotamuses Horses and relatives Hyenas Hyraxes Insectivores Insects Invertebrates Marsupials Molluscs Mongooses Monotremes Mustelids Pangolins Penguins Pigs Pronghorn Primates Rabbits, hares and pikas

82. SurfWax: News, Reviews And Articles On Prehistoric Animals Australia s large prehistoric animals, called megafauna, were as bizarre as research focused on mammallike reptiles, a class of prehistoric animals http://news.surfwax.com/biology/files/Prehistoric_Animals.html

SurfWax News Index Track News Save/Exchange Information About Us News and Articles on Prehistoric Animals Sep 4, 2005 "But there were a variety of spectacular prehistoric animals and reptiles, many of them massive and ferocious like dinosaurs.". The exhibit runs through Jan 2, 2006. (New Britain Herald, CT) Now for a really wild idea - Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Aug 30, 2005 Substituting African animals as modern proxies for prehistoric animals really doesn't "redress" the "problem" of Pleistocene extinctions at all. It just as likely would create the potential for new extinctions. (Missoulian, MT) Logisticians Ensure DoD Has Enough Petroleum Aug 12, 2005 That hydrocarbon-based commodity, created under the earth's surface over eons by the pressurized remains of prehistoric animals and plant life, is petroleum. It is a word derived from the Latin petra - rock, and oleum - oil. (DOD DefenseLINK) Forest Service: Fossil poaching running rampant Aug 9, 2005 Down on the dinosaur farm Aug 6, 2005 It was a lush ecosystem that attracted prehistoric animals like the duckbill dinosaur to its shores. All that water and mud helped preserve the animals that died along the river's banks. (Helena Independent Record) Earliest Embryos Ever Discovered Provide Clues To Dinosaur Evolution Aug 1, 2005

83. Ice Age Mammals - EnchantedLearning.com mammals are animals that have hair, are warmblooded, and nourish their young with mammals are advanced synapsids, animals distinguished by having extra http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/subjects/mammals/Iceagemammals.shtml

EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. Click here to learn more. (Already a member? Click here. Ice Age Mammals During the last Ice Age, there were many large, interesting mammals, like the saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, mastodons, and mammoths. These animals have long since gone extinct and are known mostly from fossils, from frozen, mummified carcasses, and even from ancient cave drawings. The Last Ice Age The last Ice Age started about 70,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago (during the Pleistocene epoch). The Earth was much colder than it is now; snow accumulated on much of the land, glaciers and ice sheets extended over large areas and the sea levels were lower. These phenomena changed the surface of the earth, forming lakes, changing the paths of rivers, eroding land, and depositing sand, gravel, and rocks along the glaciers' paths. What Is a Mammal? Mammals are animals that have hair, are warm-blooded, and nourish their young with milk. Mammals evolved during the Triassic period , about the same time that the first dinosaurs appeared. Some modern-day mammals include people

84. Paleocene Mammals Of The World Multituberculates do not belong to any of the groups of mammals living today the These poorly known animals, appropriately called gondwanatheres, http://www.paleocene-mammals.de/multis.htm

Multituberculates: Heyday of the longest lived mammalian order The order Multituberculata, informally also known as 'multis', is a diverse lineage of Mesozoic to early Cenozoic mammals that occupied a rodent-like niche. They appear first in the late Jurassic and are last known from the early Oligocene. The late Triassic haramiyids were sometimes considered as early multituberculates. More complete fossils have recently shown that haramiyids are a very different group of early mammals. But even without haramiyids, multituberculates existed for a time span of about 100 million years, the undisputed record for an order of mammals. Multituberculates do not belong to any of the groups of mammals living today: the primitive egg-laying monotremes and the more advanced marsupials and placentals, both also known as therians. The relationships of the multituberculates to these groups are still debated. Multituberculates have been considered as either a group that branched off even before the monotremes, as close relatives of the monotremes or as sister group of the therian mammals. Anyway, multituberculates were clearly very mammal-like, both in details of the internal anatomy, like the structure of the middle ear with the three auditory ossicles, and in external appearance, like the recently demonstrated possession of hair (see below). The anatomy of the pelvis suggests that multituberculates did not lay eggs like monotremes but gave birth to very small, immature young like marsupials. In the late Cretaceous multituberculates were widespread and diverse in the northern hemisphere, making up more than half of the mammal species of typical faunas. Although some lineages became extinct during the faunal turnover at the end of the Cretaceous, multituberculates managed very successfully to cross the K/T boundary and reached their peak of diversity during the Paleocene. They were an important component of nearly all Paleocene faunas of Europe and North America, and of some late Paleocene faunas of Asia. Multituberculates also were most diverse in size during the Paleocene, ranging from the size of a very small mouse to that of a beaver.

85. Paleocene Mammals Of The World the Paleocene to occupy the ecological role of carnivorous mammals in SouthAmerica. These animals are classified in the extinct order Sparassodonta, http://www.paleocene-mammals.de/marsupials.htm

Marsupials: A southern success story Marsupials are often associated with the Australian continent where such popular animals as kangaroos and koalas live. Less widely known is that a number of marsupials occur in South America today. These include the opossums, the only marsupials that also occur in the northern hemisphere today. Surprisingly, Mesozoic marsupials are mainly known from North America, and they may have originated there during the Cretaceous. Primitive opossum-like marsupials are among the most common and most diverse mammals in the late Cretaceous of North America. They include cat-sized forms like Didelphodon , one of the largest Mesozoic mammals - and one of the most widely known thanks to its appearance in "Walking with Dinosaurs". Didelphodon had teeth specialized for crushing, and it has been suggested that it fed on hard shelled food like clams, snails, turtles or even young ankylosaurs. The diversity of North American marsupials was dramatically reduced at the end of the Cretaceous. Only one single lineage, represented by late Cretaceous Alphadon and Paleocene Peradectes , survived the faunal turnover. Thus marsupials fared hardly better than dinosaurs in North America, and worse than reptiles on the whole.

86. Non-Dino Prehistoric Animals NonDinosaur prehistoric animals Mammoths (MAM-muths)are extinct herbivorousmammals that had long, dense hair and underfur, long tusks, http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/expltx/eft/dinocast/nondino.htm

87. Animals For Kid Trivia, Quizzes, Quiz Questions, Fun Facts, Information Here are some questions about other prehistoric animals. I ll give you thename of an animal, you choose if it is a mammal, a fish, a bird, a reptile, http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/for_children/topics_for_kids/animals_for_kids.h

Home Quizzes Global Challenge Prize Games ... Become a Gold Member Now - Get cool FunTrivia features and see no ads or popups! Home Quizzes For Children Topics for Kids : Animals for Kids Animals for Preschoolers Enter the For Children Chat Board Category Editors: minch NatalieW LilahDeDah Newest For Children Quizzes Create: Create a Animals for Kids Quiz Read Me First Quizzes Title Difficulty Played Online Author Animal Aphorisms For Kids An "aphorism" is an interesting saying. All of these sayings have animals in them...can you figure out what they mean? Easy Oct 24 04 LilahDeDah Which Dog Am I? How well do you know your dog breeds? Can you figure out which breed of dog is describing himself? Average Feb 12 05 bullymom 9 for 10 - Mammals Here's a 9 for 10 mammal quiz for kids. Take the first letter of the answer to the first nine questions and you will have the answer to question 10. Easy Sep 28 02 minch Animal Parents Sometimes a mother (female) or father (male) animal has a special name. Which of these special names do you know? Average Jan 19 01 minch As Stubborn as a Mule Choose an animal to complete each saying.

88. The Field Museum Information: Press Room Hopson agreed, The cynodonts (the group of prehistoric animals including mammalsand their nearest relatives) are some of the best specimens I have ever http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/press/press_flynn.htm

For Immediate Release October 21, 1999 Contact: Pat Kremer/Nancy O'Shea (312) 665-7100 (For Media Use Only) Visitors Can See Special Exhibition The Field Museum is currently involved in a collaborative U.S.-Malagasy project. "The most exciting part of this project is that we are only beginning to fill in huge gaps in the fossil record of Madagascar – an island that was once thought to be fossil poor, but is turning out to be a treasure trove," Flynn said. The Middle to Late Triassic has long been a puzzle for paleontologists. At the opening of this period, a wide variety of vertebrates (animals with backbones) populated the land. By the close of the period, early dinosaurs and mammals had appeared, but a sparse fossil record has left scientists with few clues about what happened in between. In contrast, the newly discovered fossils provide a virtual "Who’s Who" of the Middle-Late Triassic animals in Madagascar. To begin with, the research team found two new dinosaurs that appear to be older than Herrerasaurus Apatosaurus . The fact that these fossils belong to one of the major branches of the dinosaur evolutionary tree indicates that the earliest origins of the Dinosauria must be even older. The scientists have not yet given formal names to their new finds. The team of scientists also found fossils from several other vertebrates the same age as the two new prosauropods. These include three members of the branch of animals that includes modern day reptiles, and five members of the branch that includes mammals.

89. Exploring The Environment Of The Mesozoic extinct; prehistoric; mammal; herbivore; carnivore. MATERIALS. crayons.Students color a worksheet comparing dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/rc/pastlife/k/rcplk_4a.html

Rock Cycle - Past Life (KB) Pre Lab OBJECTIVES: Comparing dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Contrasting dinosaur eating habits. VOCABULARY: extinct prehistoric mammal herbivore carnivore MATERIALS: crayons Students color a worksheet comparing dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. BACKGROUND: A common mistake made by manufacturers of dinosaur toys and games is to call dinosaurs "prehistoric" animals. Strictly speaking, the term "prehistoric" means before written history. Dinosaurs certainly lived before humans or writing, but in practice prehistoric is used by most people to refer to the time from the beginning of the Ice Age (the Pleistocene Epoch, beginning 1.8 million years ago) to the beginning of written history. Classifying dinosaurs as prehistoric leads to incorrect notions, for example, that the dinosaurs were contemporaneous with large mammals like mammoths and saber-toothed cats, or worse, that dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans. The second goal of the Pre lab is to introduce the concept of eating habits and food types. Different dinosaurs ate different types of food. The Mesozoic dinosaurs included carnivores (meat-eaters), herbivores (plant-eaters) and omnivores (plant- and meat-eaters). Paleontologists can tell what different dinosaurs ate by looking at the shape of their teeth and the shape of their bodies and comparing them with the shapes of modern carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Teeth are the most common type of vertebrate body part found as fossils because they are denser and more resistant to chemical destruction than the other bones in the vertebrate

90. TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Science (Dinosaurs/prehistoric animals) For 65 million years, gigantic mammalsruled prehistoric Earth until they were all mysteriously wiped out. http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/browse_subcode.asp?sRow=1&sDistinct=Din

91. C. Savona-Ventura, A. Mifsud: The Maltese Neolithic Domesticated Mammals. Http:/ Other animals which may have been used and partly domesticated by man included the In addition the Maltese prehistoric Cattle breed appears to have been http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3096/cattle.html

THE MALTESE NEOLITHIC DOMESTICATED MAMMALS C. Savona-Ventura, A. Mifsud The archaeological record for the Neolithic period on the Maltese Islands has yielded remains of prehistoric art depicting various species of domesticated animals, including oxen, sheep, goats and pig. In addition the skeletal remains from various sites have similarly confirmed the presence of these and other domesticated animals including the horse, cat and dog. Other animals which may have been used and partly domesticated by man included the hedgehog, tortoise, and rabbit. OXEN: A number of depictions attributed to the Late Neolithic period have been found in the form of bas reliefs from Tarxien temples (dated by association with the pottery shards form in the locaility), a platter from the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, and a clay model from Ta' Hagrat. These depictions, together with the skeletal evidence excavated from various neolithic sites in Malta, suggest that this Bos sp. was characterised by a large hump on the back over the shoulder similar to that found in the various modern breeds of zebu ( Bos indicus ) which originated in Asia. In addition the Maltese Prehistoric Cattle breed appears to have been characterised by long horns.The combination of long bulky horns, a shoulder hump and a possible pendulous dewlap approximates the Neolithic Maltese Breed to the Ankole-Watusi Cattle which originated in Africa. The Maltese Neolithic Cow on the other hand was apparently smaller with short horns and lacked a definite shoulder hump.

92. Apollonius.Net - Brontosaurus Was A Mammal When footprints of prehistoric animals are found in the coal surface of The Triceratops may still have been a mammal, however, since a present day group http://www.apollonius.net/brontosaurus.html

Brontosaurus Was A Mammal By Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky This article by Dr. Velikovsky appeared in the KRONOS Millions of years are required for a piece of wood to become a piece of coal. But to make of it a piece of coal when ablaze, only a few hours are needed. When footprints of prehistoric animals are found in the coal surface of quarries, it is not necessary to assume that millions of years must be involved in the calculations. Continents appeared and disappeared; mountains rose and fell; rivers lost their beds; and deep within the Earth, all geological strata boiled and turned over. An animal fled upon the ground to save itself, or hid in a cave. The woods burned; the air high above was in flames; the ground became soft from the inside. The animal perished, but before perishing it left its mark its footprints. The antiquity of the geological strata in which fossils are found is measured by tens and hundreds of millions of years. However, all conclusions of geology must be revised in a very definite manner. It is possible that not tens of millions of years lay between the full extinction of the large Dinosauria and our age, but only some thousands of years. The evolution of species, as it would proceed in a world not disturbed by catastrophes, would require for its course quite a different span of time than if cataclysms intervened; cataclysms could do in only hours or weeks for what evolution would require millennia to accomplish. The huge extinct animals dinosaurs are classified as reptiles, and their time is called the Age of the Reptiles. It was supposed that in this early age no mammals existed; then skeletons of small wolf-like animals were discovered together with the bones of dinosaurs.

93. World Heritage: Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte): Naracoo Examples of World Heritage values of the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites preserve examples of unique Australian prehistoric animals over the last 25 http://www.deh.gov.au/heritage/worldheritage/sites/fossil/naracoorte-values.html

Skip navigation links About us Contact us Publications ... What's new World Heritage You are here: DEH Home Heritage World Heritage ... Australian fossil mammal sites Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) World Heritage Values The Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The World Heritage criteria against which the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was listed remain the formal criteria for this property. These criteria have been included in the Values Table below. The World Heritage criteria are periodically revised and the criteria against which the property was listed in 1994 are not necessarily identical with the current criteria. Examples of the World Heritage values for which the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was listed are included in the Values Table for each criterion. These examples are illustrative of the World Heritage values of the property, and they do not necessarily constitute a comprehensive list of these values. Other sources including the nomination document and references listed below the Values Table are available and could be consulted for a more detailed understanding of the World Heritage values of the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte). Values Table Natural criteria against which the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994 Examples of World Heritage values of the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) for which the property was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994

94. The Berkshire Museum Mammal a group of animals that nourish their young with milk produced by mammaryglands, The Macmillan Illustrated Dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. http://www.berkshiremuseum.org/programs/youth/1_dinodetective.html

Visit Info Stay informed with our email newsletters Click here to give feedback on our pages for educators. Museum Educator-led Programs Dinosaur Detectives Grades 3-5 Scroll down the page to find items on the menu below or click on a link to jump to an item. Program Description and Frameworks Program Outline Key Terms and Concepts Classroom Activities ... Click here for printable version of all resources listed above Program Description and Frameworks print only this section Discover unique adaptations that enabled mammals, dinosaurs, and reptiles of the sea and air to survive in the Mesozoic era. Learn how to classify dinosaurs into groups by observing physical characteristics. Evidence, including information about teeth, tracks, and bones, provides students with valuable clues as they identify prehistoric creatures. Location: Discovery Room and Dinosaur Gallery Length: One hour Grades: 3 - 5 Massachusetts Frameworks Science and Technology/Engineering Strand 2: Life Science Classify plants and animals according to physical characteristics that they share.

95. ROM Images mammals are warmblooded animals that produce milk. Most mammals are partiallyor wholly covered with hair. Images presently feature skin and skeleton http://images.rom.on.ca/public/index.php?function=browse&action=options&browse=s

96. Prehistoric Animals Our offers in the category of commodities prehistoric animals. Wonderfulreproduction of a slothlike mammal with massive front legs/arms. http://www.dinotime.de/en/prehistoric_animals/

Pr¤historische Tiere Prehistoric Animals Home Shop New Items Dino of the Month ... Prehistoric Animals The product category Prehistoric Animals is spread over 2 sites: As wuth their dinosaur figures these prehistoric animals from Bullyland are all manufactured from uPVC-free plastics and are hand-painted. Ideal to play with and as an educational toy as almost every figure has an information pamphlet delivered with it. sabe-toothed cat Detail non pvc synthetic,massiv,handpainted 10cmx4,5cm,weight 20g,scale 1:20 Art.No. 4 Saber-toothed tiger Detail Highly detailed, solid, non-uPVC plastic, hand-painted. Manufactured by Bullyland, Germany. We also offer repicas of Saber-toothed Tiger's teeth at Fossil>Teeth The Saber-toothed Tiger belongs to the feline family and belongs to a found in the sub-family Machairodontinae. 10cmx4,5cm,weight 34g Art.No. 5 Giant Mammoth Detail made by bullyland, handpainted, massive non-pvc synthetic 21cmx12cm,weight:300g Art.No. 3 Wollnashorn Detail Manufactured by Bullyland, uPVC-free, solid plastic, hand-painted 17cmx6,5cm,weight 126g,scale 1:24

97. Ecology Of The Triassic Through the Triassic they became evermore mammal like until towards the end The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Triassic/ecoloftri.htm

Go to Evidence of Extinction Go to theories about the Triassic Mass Extinction Return to Homepage What is an Extinction? ... Click here for some Triassic animal pics Ecology of the Triassic Introduction Rise of the Ruling Reptiles The Rise of the Dinosaurs Meanwhile in The Seas ... Further Reading Introduction During the Triassic period the Super continent Pangea expanded to it's maximum extent. A single tongue of ocean protruded into the continent forming the Tethys seaway situated to the East of the continent ( see a map of the Triassic (outside this site)). The increased distance from the sea dried out the interior of the continent, producing increasingly arid conditions. With the merging of the worlds continents and the drying of inland seas animals were free to colonize the whole super continent. It was this climate that the survivors of the end Permian extinction faced. The huge extinctions of the End Permian event , had cleared many of the evolutionary niches for new colonizers to evolve into leading to an evolutionary race. This race led not only to the rise of the dinosaurs but also to many other important groups including, the crocodilians ( the crocodile group), the pterosuars (a group of ancient flying reptiles), the turtles, and the mammals.

98. Cyclops Myth Spurred By "One-Eyed" Fossils? The fossil of a giant animal—much bigger than modern elephants—has been unearthed It was one of the largest mammals ever to walk the face of the Earth. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0205_030205_cyclops.html

Site Index Subscribe Shop Search Top 15 Most Popular Stories NEWS Front Page Environment Health Offbeat ... Video in the News SPECIAL SERIES The Genographic Project Pulse of the Planet National Geographic Channel RESOURCES (What's this?) Contact Us Front Page Cyclops Myth Spurred by "One-Eyed" Fossils? Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News February 5, 2003 Ever wonder where our worst nightmares come from? For the ancient Greeks, it may have been the fossils of giant prehistoric animals. The tusk, several teeth, and some bones of a Deinotherium giganteum, which, loosely translated means really huge terrible beast, have been found on the Greek island Crete. A distant relative to today's elephants, the giant mammal stood 15 feet (4.6 meters) tall at the shoulder, and had tusks that were 4.5 feet (1.3 meters) long. It was one of the largest mammals ever to walk the face of the Earth. "This is the first finding in Crete and the south Aegean in general," said Charalampos Fassoulas, a geologist with the University of Crete's Natural History Museum. "It is also the first time that we found a whole tusk of the animal in Greece. We haven't dated the fossils yet, but the sediment where we found them is of 8 to 9 million years in age." Skulls of Deinotherium giganteum found at other sites show it to be more primitive, and the bulk a lot more vast, than today's elephant, with an extremely large nasal opening in the center of the skull.

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