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Description
- Overview:
- Back in the Jurassic, dinosaurs may have dominated terrestrial ecosystems, but they were not alone. Scurrying around their feet and clinging to the trees above them were the fuzzy ancestors of their successors. When most of the dinosaurs perished, the surviving mammals diversified into the dinosaurs' niches, where they remain today. Last month, scientists reported on the discovery of a fossil mammal from China that would have lived alongside the dinosaurs and that, at 160 million years old, represents one of the earliest mammals known.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Level:
- High School, Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration, Reading
- Provider:
- University of California Museum of Paleontology
- Provider Set:
- Understanding Evolution
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2011
- License:
- Some Rights Reserved
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Graphics/Photos, Text/HTML
Good resource. Tied to CCSS Argument Anchor Standard. Provides nice supplemental information on phylogeny and clades. There are good article links that can be used for students to read and write arguments. There are also skeletal reconstructions based on the fossils. The questions provided in the lesson are rigorous and require higher level, critical thinking. HCPSIII- SC.BS.4.6 & SC.BS.5.2