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Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
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To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
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As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
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Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
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I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
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One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.
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Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
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The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.
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Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
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I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
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When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.
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Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.
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