About this Course
Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology is a 12-lesson course educating a complete overview of non-avian dinosaurs. Matters lined: anatomy, consuming, locomotion, development, environmental and behavioral diversifications, origins and extinction. Classes are delivered from museums, fossil-preparation labs and dig websites. Estimated workload: 3-5 hrs/week.
SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN
- Biodiversity
- Biology
- Evolution
- Paleontology
Syllabus – What you’ll study from this course
WEEK
1
2 hours to finish
Look and Anatomy
This lesson covers the variety in dinosaur appearances, and can be capable of establish main options of the most important teams of dinosaurs.
WEEK
2
1 hour to finish
Demise and Fossilization
This module describes how fossils kind, how we interpret the taphonomy of skeletons and bonebeds, and appears on the attainable biases taphonomic occasions could create within the fossil file.
WEEK
3
1 hour to finish
Consuming
This module seems on the number of meals varieties, feeding habits, and feeding diversifications amongst the most important teams of dinosaurs.
WEEK
4
1 hour to finish
Shifting Round
This module helps college students perceive the overall modes and kinds of locomotion within the main dinosaur teams. It additionally describes common strategies of evaluating hypotheses on locomotion.
