Science for Kids
Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: The Age of Dinosaurs Begins
Watch in wonder as dinosaurs begin to make their mark on the world. [2:03]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: Dangerous Life of Dinosaurs
See how the environment changed during the late Cretaceous Period, the last days of the dinosaurs. [3:59]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: Dinosaur Extinction Video
Find out about some of the theories of how the dinosaurs became extinct. [2:02]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: How Dinosaurs Moved
Follow the making of the BBC documentary 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and learn how experts developed an understanding of dinosaur movement by following the movements of large animals alive today such as elephants. [5:17]
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Here's What Contributed to the Extinction of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed moving 23 animals and plants off the endangered species list, declaring them extinct. Perhaps the most well-known of the species deemed gone forever is the ivory-billed woodpecker. These...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Mass Extinction
Presentation of an emerging theory that explains the mass extinction of life that occurred at the end of the Permian period. [4:51]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: A Guinea Pig the Size of a Horse
This site is provided for by National Public Radio. A seven foot tall rodent that weighs nearly one ton seems like something out of the movies, but researchers have found a skeleton of a rodent the size of a horse. Read about this...