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 * Questions || Answers ||
 * What causes fossils to form? || Over time, the weight of additional sediments squeeze out the fluids from the organism and the sediments that surround it, causing lithification A record of the organism is thus recorded in the rock. . . a fossil. ||


 * How much does a novice paleontologist get paid? || The salary is usually decent, maybe 30 to 35 thousand a year. But that depends on a lot of different things. It really depends on who you work for. ||
 * Who removed the first dinosaur bones and where? || The first documented dinosaur fossil was found Western Europe in the 1820s. It is assumed that many dinosaur fossils were found before this; many earlier writings describe people finding "dragon" bones, which are assumed to be dinosaur bones. ||
 * When did paleontology start? || The study of animals' remains, both living and extinct, goes back to the beginning of human civilization itself.However, the modern science of paleontology did not emerge until the 1800s. ||


 * **How many species of dinosaurs are there?** || It is impossible to tell how many species of dinosaurs there were; new species are found each year. Approximately 700 species have been named as of 2007, and these species are placed in about 300 valid dinosaur genera, although about 550 have been named

|| The biggest single dinosaur bone, by weight, is one of the backbones of Argentinosaurus. One backbone was five feet by five feet and more than one ton in fossil weight. || For example, ||
 * Can blood vessels still be found on dinosaur bones? || Actual red blood cells in fossil bones from a Tyrannosaurus rex <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? It sounds preposterous—to those who believe that these dinosaur remains are at least 65 million years old.It is of course much less of a surprise to those who believe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Genesis] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in which case dinosaur remains are at most only a few thousand years old.In a recent article, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|1] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> scientists from Montana State University, seemingly struggling to allow professional caution to restrain their obvious excitement at the findings, report on the evidence which seems to strongly suggest that traces of real blood from a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T. rex <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have actually been found. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Has anyone ever found a dinosaur fossil that was mixed with sea creature fossils? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes most dinosaur bones are mixed with those of sea creatures. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why do the dinosaur bones take great work to remove? ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How long does It take to remove a dinosaur bone? || 17 days is considered fast so it takes a long time. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How many periods of dinosaur's are there? || There are 9 Cambrian period: (570 million years ago),Ordovician period: (505 million years ago),Silurian period: (438 million years ago),Devonian period: (408 million years ago),Carboniforous period: (360 million years ago),Permian period: (286 million years ago),Triassic period: 245 million years ago,Jurassic period: (208 million years ago)Cretaceous period: (144 million years ago) ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does everyone believe that dinosaur’s lived millions of years ago. || Evolutionists believe that Dinosaurs died millions of years ago. But there is a great amount of evidence that dinosaurs lived only a few thousand years ago ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who found the first t rex || The first Tyrannosaurus rex fossil was discovered by the famous [|fossil hunter] Barnum Brown in 1902. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was the dinosaurs death result of meteors or Noah’s flood || There is no real way to tell but scientists are still researching today ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is it more likely for a flood or a meteor shower || no one knows ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how many sides have different beleifs || there are several ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do paleantoligists travel alot? || <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; display: block; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 13px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 733px; zoom: 1;">Well, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to work in the labs or museums, you won't have to move. Fossil collection itself can require travel, but there are fossil sites in North Carolina.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do the paleantoligists remove fossils? || When they first start digging they may use shovels, picks, and sometimes even heavy equipment to take off the soil and rock that is above the uppermost bones, then once they get to the layer of rock where the bones are they may use rock hammers and chisels to slowly remove the rock. if a large rock is removed it is usually broken down smaller to make sure there are and fragments or small bones within it. Once they find a bone they will work around it, finding the boundaries, to get an idea of what it is, and how best to remove it ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Has anyone ever found anything unusual about the bones? || Unusual things about dinosaurs are discovered all the time. ||
 * where does a paleontologist get to travel? ||  ||
 * What do I have to do to become a paleontologist when I grow up? || Go to college and study biology, including statistics and all about living animals. Then in graduate school after college you get a doctoral degree or at least a master's degree. That takes another two to five years. Then you write a long paper, do lots of dirty work for professors and pay a load of money. ||
 * How long does t take to get a P.H D. in paleontology? || A Ph.D. program usually takes from four to six years if the candidate already has a master's, and from six to eight years if he or she does not. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">What are the advantages and disadvantages of becoming a paleontologist?

|| <span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">disadvantages is all the work in laboratory you search for instead out in the field.

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