Dinosaurs & Fossils

Dinosaurs are on the Internet! Find your favorite one and see where they once lived.

Resources in this category:

The Age of Dinosaurs
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaurflr/meet.html

Learn all about dinosaurs here! Read about possible ways they became extinct and learn what dinosaurs lived when. There's stuff in here for teachers, too!

The Age of Dinosaurs
http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Students?content_spotlight/dinos...

"World Book editors have compiled a collection of articles about dinosaurs, the age in which dinosaurs lived, dinosaur discoveries, and scientific efforts to study prehistoric creatures."

Dino Directory
http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/

"This is a guide to 163 of the most well-described dinosaurs, including over 700 images." You can find a specific dinosaur by its name, or look through groups of dinosaurs by when and where they lived.

Dinorama
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama/frame.html

This cool site is built by National Geographic Society. This site contains many pictures of various dinosaurs, geologic periods of each dinosaur, and many more.

Dinosaur Dig
http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/dinosaur/index.html

"Put on your pith helmet and venture through the Mesozoic Era. Find out how to find fossils and ponder the theory of meteors and mass extinction."

Dinosaur Eggs
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/dinoeggs/

"Catch the excitement of fossil researchers as they 'hatch' fossilized dinosaur eggs and reveal the embryos inside. Tour our museum of hatchlings."

Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette
http://www.dinosaur.org/frontpage.html

Read articles about dinosaurs and catch up on the latest news about dinosaurs from the world of science.

Dinosauria
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html

Find out why dinosaurs are not really extinct and learn about the different times that they lived. You can even view some skeletons of dinosaurs on exhibit. There's lots of information about dinosaurs, fossils and more at this site.

Dinosauria On-Line
http://www.dinosauria.com

Here you can read articles about dinosaurs, look at pictures of dinosaurs and see maps of the places where they lived. You can also look up all those dinosaur words and names in a dictionary and find out how to pronouce them.

Dinosaurium
http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/7.html

From Ceratopsids to Velociraptor, learn the details about your favorite dinosaur at the Dinosaurium.

Discovering Dinosaurs
http://search.eb.com/dinosaurs/dinosaurs/index2.html

This site is an "online expedition into our paleontological past and an itinerary for its future." If you love dinosaurs or if you need to do a report about dinosaurs, this site offers a ton of information, including a special dinosaur search engine.

Discovering the World's First Full Dinosaur Skeleton
http://www.levins.com/dinosaur.html

"In the summer of 1858, Victorian gentleman and fossil hobbyist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey, when he heard that twenty years previous, workers had found gigantic bones in a local marl pit. Foulke spent the rest of the summer directing a crew of hired diggers shin deep in gray slime." What do you think they found?

Download-a-Dinosaur
http://www.rain.org/~philfear/download-a-dinosaur.html

"Easy-to-make paper dinosaurs that you can download from this site and printout on your printer. All that is needed is scissors and glue."

Fighting Dinosaurs: New Discoveries from Mongolia
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/fightingdinos/

Watch a video reconstruction of two dinosaurs engaged in combat, plus explore the rest of this online museum exhibit.

FOSSILS! Behind the Scenes at the Museum
http://www.rom.on.ca/schools/fossils/game.php

Compare fossils and the items that made them at this online activity site from the Royal Ontario Museum.

NOVA Online--Curse of T. rex
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/trex/

"Dinosaurs may have ruled the earth, but they were never alone on it. A colorful cast of characters, including pump-headed insects, gigantic amphibian reptiles and tiny woodland mammals, coexisted with dinosaurs..." Read what scientists have to say about these animals, insects, and plants that lived with the dinosaurs. Based on a program originally aired on PBS' NOVA television series.

OLogy
http://www.ology.amnh.org/

"OLogy means "the study of." And here on the American Museum of Natural History's OLogy Web site, you can study and explore many cool OLogies." You can learn about Volcanology (volcanoes), Arachnology (spiders), Astrology (planets and stars), and much more.

Prehistoric Life - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/

This site is DINO-MYTE! Read fact files on dinos, learn how new dinos are discovered, find out about why the dinos became extinct, or send a dino postcard to a friend.

Project Exploration: Dinosaurs
http://www.projectexploration.org/

Learn more about dinosaurs discovered during Project Exploration expeditions.

Royal Tyrrell Museum Tour
http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/

Take a tour through the dinosaur and fossil exhibits of this museum in Alberta, Canada. The exhibit continues through the Ice Age and into the age of mammals. There's lots of photographs of real dinosaur skeletons and fossils. Make sure you visit the T-Rex!

The Search for Prehistoric Sharks
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/prehistoricshar...

When dinosaurs roamed the Earth, ancient sharks roamed the seas!

Sue at the Field Museum
http://www.fmnh.org/sue/

Sue is the largest and most complete T-rex skeleton and she's going to be at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. If you can't go to Chicago, visit her on the Web!

Welcome to Jobaria
http://www.projectexploration.org/

Find out about Jobaria, a new dinosaur giant from Africa. You can learn step-by-step how paleontologists find, study and rebuild dinosaur skeletons. Also, don't miss the interactive diagram showing the skeleton of the dinosaur Jobaria. Click on a bone for a larger picture of the bone and an explanation of how the shape of the bone contributed to the overall functioning of the dinosaur.

Yahoo! Kids: Dinosaurs
http://kids.yahoo.com/dinosaurs

Explore the Dinopedia, which has "just about anything that you would hope to find about prehistory," including, of course, lots of facts about dinosaurs, with color illustrations.

Zoom Dinosaurs
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.ht...

There's lots to learn about dinosaurs at this site, along with some cute pictures.