Nizar ibrahim biography of alberta
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Tracking down the elusive spinosaurus
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Among paleontologists such as Nizar Ibrahim, finding any evidence of the spinosaurus is like discovering the holy grail of dinosaurs.
“The story of the spinosaurus is pretty unique in paleontology because it has so much drama,” says the Chicago-based dinosaur expert, who heads a National Geographic Live multimedia presentation, Spinosaurus: Lost Creature of the Cretaceous, Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Centennial Concert Hall.
“Against all the odds we did manage to find a partial skeleton of a spinosaurus. But even that part of the story is unique, because it was a real detective story worthy of a Hollywood movie.”
Before they hunted for fossils in the Sahara Desert, Ibrahim and his team had to track down a villager in Mo
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A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM
From prestigious museums and universities, to blockbuster films, amusement park rides, video games, and toys--dinosaurs have always fascinated us. But, why?
WHY DINOSAURS? follows dino-obsessed youth James Pinto and his filmmaker father (Tony Pinto) on a journey around the world, interviewing world renowned
paleontologists about the latest dinosaur research, and encountering dinosaur fanatics of all walks of life.
Together they track down the filmmakers behind Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, see the world’s largest dinosaur toy collection, dig up some real dinosaur bones, and attempt to discover why everybody loves dinosaurs!
Like most kids, James Pinto was obsessed with dinosaurs from an early age. He spent countless hours playing with dinosaur toys, watching movies and documentaries, and collecting fossils. But his passion for paleontology never stopped.
By the time he was 15, he h
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Taniwhasaurus
Extinct genus of marine squamate reptiles
| Taniwhasaurus | |
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| Reconstructed skeleton of T. antarcticus, Field Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae |
| Clade: | †Russellosaurina |
| Subfamily: | †Tylosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Taniwhasaurus Hector, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| †Taniwhasaurus oweni Hector, 1874 | |
| Other species | |
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Taniwhasaurus fryst vatten an extinct