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Here are some interesting sites to visit if you want to know more (all open in a new browser window):
The American Museum of Natural History - Division of Paleontology
www.amnh.org/our-research/paleontology
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Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta, Canada
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is Canada's only museum dedicated exclusively to the science of palaeontology. It houses one of the world's largest displays of dinosaurs. (check out the interactive timeline)
https://tyrrellmuseum.com
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Birdlike Dinosaur Fossil May Shake Up the Avian Family Tree
In the 150 years since its discovery in Germany, Archaeopteryx has perched high on the avian family tree as the earliest and most primitive bird, somewhere near the evolutionary moment when some dinosaurs gave rise to birds. But recent fossil finds cast doubt on this interpretation: Archaeopteryx may be only a birdlike dinosaur rather than a dinosaurlike true bird.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/science/02fossil.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Bus-Sized Dinosaur Breathed Like Birds
A huge carnivorous dinosaur that lived about 85 million years ago had a breathing system much like that of today's birds, a new analysis of fossils reveals, reinforcing the evolutionary link between dinos and modern birds.
http://www.livescience.com/animals/080929-bird-dinosaur.html
Jurassic World website
www.jurassicworld.com
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