Tuesday, February 1, 2011
How to make a dinosaur
Henry Wu, the chief geneticist explained how they make the dinosaurs. First, they extract dinosaur DNA from ambers which are fossilized sap of trees. Sometimes there are insects that have fed on dinosaur blood caught in it and they took the blood. After that, the dinosaur DNA is always incomplete because it was only a small portion of blood extracted. They use a very high-tech computer to complete the DNA chain by using other animal’s DNA. Then, the dinosaur embryos that have been completed are put into special eggs so that they can grow and hatch. The eggs have special shells and the room temperature must be perfect. Sometimes if something goes wrong with the egg they had to inject poison in it so that it will not cause trouble. Finally the dinosaur would hatch so that they could find out what type of dinosaur it is. Just waiting it hatch is exciting!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
My Name is Alan Grant
Hello, my name is Alan Grant. I am 41 years old. I am from Texas but I live in America and also do most of my fieldwork in America. I am a paleontologist. A paleontologist is someone who studies dinosaurs and dinosaur bones. Dinosaurs are living creatures that lived in the Jurassic Period, about 193 and 136 million years ago. There are also dinosaurs living in the Triassic Period, about 245 and 193 million years ago but their bones are rarely found. All of these dinosaurs are extinct because something happened millions of years ago that killed all the living dinosaurs on earth. I have a partner. Her name is Ellie Sattler. She is a paleobotanist. A paleobotanist is someone who studies plants from the time dinosaurs lived. Dr. Sattler & I travel around the world, searching for dinosaur bones not yet discovered. Well, that's it about me. Time to search for more dinosaurs!!
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