Dinosaurs! Fossils   Imagine you are alone on a beach. How can you tell if anyone else has been there? You might look for footprints in the sand or for other signs that someone might have left behind. This is how we know about dinosaurs too. Since the dinosaurs were all extinct before any people lived, the only way we can know about them is by studying the footprints, bones, eggs, and other evidence they left behind. These pieces of evidence sometimes have been covered by sand or mud or have been buried under the earth. Over millions of years, they have turned to stone. These hardened remains of either plants or animals are called fossils. They are sometimes uncovered when water or wind wear away the layers of earth covering them or when people dig them up. By studying fossils, scientists called paleontologists learn about the dinosaurs and about what the world was like when they lived. Sometimes only pieces of the dinosaurs' skeletons can be found. The paleontologists must then try to imagine how the dinosaur might have looked from the pieces of evidence found. It is like trying put together a puzzle when pieces are missing. After the scientists finish reconstructing the skeletons, they are often put in museums. Click Here Fossil Sites Click Here Duck Billed Dinosaur (Bones, Colors, etc. May be slow to load) Click Here Read About a Dinosaur Fossil Hunt (Expedia's Mungo Park) Click Here Slides of Building a Giant Dinosaur Click Here Smithsonian Skeletons by Dinosaur Groups Click Here Smithsonian Jurassic Dinosaur Skeletons Click Here Museum Dinosaur Specimens Click Here Smithsonian List of Dinosaur Specimens Click Here Smithsonian Dinosaur Anatomy Lesson Click Here Smithsonian Stegosaurus Click Here Smithsonian Cretaceous Dinosaur Group Click Here Dinosaur Hall at National Museum of Natural History Click Here Discovery.com's The Great Bone Bazzar: Field Reports Click Here Discovering the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton Click Here Discovery.com's Valley of the T. Rex: Live from the Digs Paleontologist Videos (Use the Real Player Version) Click Here Discovery.com's Dinosaur Fossils Guide Click Here Various Fossils (includes plants, insects,etc.) Click Here Discovery.com Fossil Gallery Various Fossils Click Here Fossil Photos from Tate Museum Click Here Discovery.com Fossil Slide Show Click Here Introduction to the Duckbilled Dinosaur Click Here Smithsonian Triceratops Bones Click Here Pages on University of California's Paleontology Museum's T. Rex Exhibit Click Here Learning From the Fossil Record Click Here The Russian Dinosaur Expedition Index - A Fossil Photo Collection Arranged by Time Period Click Here Fossil Feature from Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences Click Here The StoneCompany's Table of Various Fossils (Includes insects, trilobites, etc.) Click Here Discovery.com's Into Alaska's Fossil Frontier Click Here InfoQuest Slide Show Click Here Getting Into The Fossil Record (Has 2 Levels) Click Here Where to Dig Click Here How to Find Dinosaurs Click Here Another InfoQuest Slide Show Click Here Academy of Natural Sciences San Diego Natural History Museum's Where Are The Fossils? Click Here Click Here Dinosaur Digs Dinosaur and Fossil Parks (Map of sites with description and link to site) Click Here Into Alaska's Fossil Frontier Click Here From The Fossils(Academy of Natural Sciences Click Here BillyBear4Kids Info Page Home / Kinds of Dinosaurs / Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters / Lived Long Ago / Hatched From Eggs / Sizes of Dinosaurs / What Happened to Dinosaurs-Extinction / Paleontologists / Fossils / Resources, Games, Etc.