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From the Ted Talk by Martin Lockley: The dinosaur detectives of real-life Jurassic parks

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Take a look at your own body. You've got one skeleton, right? But how much could we really learn about you and all your day-to-day activities just by looking at your bones alone? Not much, perhaps. foissl footprints, therefore, help us to bring these bneos alive. They are the nearest thing we really have to motion puericts or movies of extinct animals.

So there's a big difference between the study of fossil footprints or trace fossils and bones. For example, imagine a dinosaur track site the size of a football field with 5,000 or maybe even 10,000 fossil footprints. This is direct eivcdnee of the activity of deozns, possibly hundreds of dinosaurs going about their daily aivictty.

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Take a look at your own body. You've got one skeleton, right? But how much could we really learn about you and all your day-to-day activities just by looking at your bones alone? Not much, perhaps. ______ footprints, therefore, help us to bring these _____ alive. They are the nearest thing we really have to motion ________ or movies of extinct animals.

So there's a big difference between the study of fossil footprints or trace fossils and bones. For example, imagine a dinosaur track site the size of a football field with 5,000 or maybe even 10,000 fossil footprints. This is direct ________ of the activity of ______, possibly hundreds of dinosaurs going about their daily ________.

Solution


  1. activity
  2. evidence
  3. bones
  4. dozens
  5. pictures
  6. fossil

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Take a look at your own body. You've got one skeleton, right? But how much could we really learn about you and all your day-to-day activities just by looking at your bones alone? Not much, perhaps. Fossil footprints, therefore, help us to bring these bones alive. They are the nearest thing we really have to motion pictures or movies of extinct animals.

So there's a big difference between the study of fossil footprints or trace fossils and bones. For example, imagine a dinosaur track site the size of a football field with 5,000 or maybe even 10,000 fossil footprints. This is direct evidence of the activity of dozens, possibly hundreds of dinosaurs going about their daily activity.

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