How can Paleontologists tell what a dinosaur looks like just from fossils?
Recreating what a dinosaur may have looked like from it’s fossilized bones, requires several steps. First, the fossils are cleaned and then linked together to accurately form the dinosaur’s skeletal system. Once a dinosaur’s skeleton is formed, it can be easily “fleshed out” using anatomical principles that we know apply to muscle placement in vertebrates and size of muscle in relation to the bone it is attached to. Also, the weight of the muscle can be ascertained with a good degree of certainty and from this the weight of the animal can be extrapolated. • Did different types of dinosaurs hang around together like in the movie “Jurassic Park”? \ Put answer here. • Are there any relatives of dinosaurs still living? According to the latest fossil find of “Protoarchaeopteryx”, it can now be assumed with a fair amount of certainty that you can see a dinosaur outside of your window nearly every day. They are called BIRDS. • Were dinosaurs warm-blooded or cold-blooded? Some paleontologists
