Dogfoose.com (Michael Kline) » jurassic http://dogfoose.com Illustration for children... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:28:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dogfoose.com/2010/06/has-anyone-seen-my-breakfast/ http://dogfoose.com/2010/06/has-anyone-seen-my-breakfast/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:20:42 +0000 mikey http://dogfoose.com/?p=671 Continue reading →]]> Something missing from your breakfast table?

The word Oviraptor means “egg thief,” after a fossil specimen was found on top of a pile of what was thought to be Protoceratops eggs. The image below is from Howard Temperley’s In the Days of Dinosaurs.

]]> http://dogfoose.com/2010/06/has-anyone-seen-my-breakfast/feed/ 0 The Geologic Time Scale http://dogfoose.com/2010/03/the-geologic-time-scale/ http://dogfoose.com/2010/03/the-geologic-time-scale/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:38:34 +0000 mikey http://dogfoose.com/?p=584 Continue reading →]]> The geologic time scale is split into four major eras–Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic, and are subdivided into periods. The number beside the era or period in the infotoon below shows how many years ago it began. I thought it would be fun to show it as walk through the park. This would also make for a great class project as well. For more information, see the Earth issue of Kids Discover magazine. We start at the Precambrian…

Click for a larger image. MYA=millions of years ago

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