Why are dinosaur teeth such common fossils

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Assignment:

Scientific Method Lab: Directions: Answer the questions for the 2 videos and then upload the questions to Canvas. Be sure to place your answers on the line below the question and then highlight your answer in yellow, color or underline your answers. First video: This 14 min. video is about T Rex and shows how paleontologists work on theories.

1. What is the name of the male paleontologist featured in this video?

2. Why does he only have a high school diploma even though he spent 7 years at the University of Montana as a student? (Side note - he has become a nationwide advocate for people who deal with this academic disability.)

3. What does he want to know about dinosaurs now if paleontologists used to just want to find skeletons?

4. Why are dinosaur teeth such common fossils?

5. What information did the size of the tibia of the 1 month old and the 1 year old tell Jack Horner about T-Rex's behavior?

6. Who are the living dinosaurs?

7. Who is the famous woman paleontologist from North Carolina State University?

8. How can you tell a fossil bone from a rock?

9. What did Jack Horner discover inside dinosaur eggs? (Side note: The Jurupa Discovery Center has one of the best dinosaur egg collections in the U.S.)

10. What was the problem with recovering B-Rex from the field site?

11. How did Mary Schweitzer know that B-Rex was female and pregnant?

12. What did she discover by mistake when she used too much acid?

13. Most paleontologists were very skeptical of the 68 million year old organic material in B-Rex. What did they say it might be instead?

14. To convince other scientists, what do you have to do? (Hint: 80 million year old duckbill)

15. What does Jack Horner want to do with chicken DNA?

16. What are 3 dinosaur traits that birds have? (They are referring to theropod = meat eating dinosaurs here)

17. What 3 genes does Horner need to turn on or off to make a chicken look like a dinosaur?

18. How many years does Jack Horner think that it will take to reverse engineer a chicken?

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