Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology is a 12-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of non-avian dinosaurs. Topics covered: anatomy, eating, locomotion, growth, environmental and behavioral adaptations, origins and extinction. Lessons are delivered from museums, fossil-preparation labs and dig sites. Estimated workload: 3-5 hrs/week.
Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology
Instructor: Philip John Currie, PhD
Sponsored by Barbados NTI
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There are 12 modules in this course
This lesson covers the diversity in dinosaur appearances, and will be able to identify major features of the major groups of dinosaurs.
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7 videos4 readings1 assignment
This module describes how fossils form, how we interpret the taphonomy of skeletons and bonebeds, and looks at the possible biases taphonomic events may create in the fossil record.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
This module looks at the variety of food types, feeding habits, and feeding adaptations amongst the major groups of dinosaurs.
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4 videos1 reading1 assignment
This module helps students understand the general modes and styles of locomotion in the major dinosaur groups. It also describes general methods of evaluating hypotheses on locomotion.
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4 videos1 reading1 assignment
This module provides a generalized life history of a dinosaur, from birth through adulthood, including reproduction. The student will be able to describe major techniques of evaluating growth stages and rates in dinosaurs.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
Examines the behaviours and structures that may have served for attack or defence through the lifetime of a dinosaur.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
This module will teach the different ways of defining what a species is. Students will be able to compare the strengths and weaknesses of different species concepts for different situations.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
This module will describe the basic theories of speciation, and discusses how how these different methods of speciation may have occurred, including both hypothetical and empirical examples.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
This method provides basic stratigraphic concepts and the scale of earth history. Students will understand the evolution of dinosaurs through time, including which groups evolved when and where.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
This module presents the basic concepts in plate tectonics and the evolution of the earth’s surface.
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4 videos1 reading1 assignment
This module will look at the evolution of dinosaurs from non-dinosaurian archosaurs.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
The module will examine the end-Cretaceous extinction event, and provide examples of vertebrate groups that both persisted and died out during the event.
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4 videos1 reading1 assignment
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Reviewed on Mar 18, 2021
This was a well designed course that explained the information in such a way that I did not feel overwhelmed. The instructors were wonderful. I highly recommend this course, even for kids!
Reviewed on Oct 1, 2017
I thought this course had a lot of interesting information and I learned a lot from it. Some of the material was little to complicated for me to understand when I went over it the first time.
Reviewed on Nov 15, 2020
This was such an awesome course! Philip and Betsey were great to listen to, they make the course fun and every lesson is fascinating to learn. My love for dinosaurs have grown so much more.
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