This is the opening site for the online exhibit at the Natural History Museum. The exhibit features a wealth of information on dinosaurs including a dinosaur directory, fossil specimens, information, pictures, and more. The exhibit also...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the time period when dinosaurs were still living on earth and describes the event that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.This passage is a stand-alone curricular...

An image gallery of fossils through time. Students choose a time period to see what life was like by studying the fossils.

An excellent database of over three hundred dinosaurs from around the world. They are organized by country, continent, time period, and by alphabetical order, and each dinosaur has pictures and facts about it.

A brief description of the quetzacoatlus, "the largest flying creature of all time," which lived during the Late Cretaceous period over 65 million years ago. Find fast facts about this animal's size and fossil location, as well as...

This drawing shows what life might have looked like for dinosaurs during the late Triassic Period. The late Triassic Period stretched from 228 million years ago until 200 million years ago. Many of the first dinosaurs, such as the...

This resource provides an interactive introduction to paleontology. Take a tour, search by animal or time period, and peruse for hot links throughout the museum.

Learn the basic information about the Mesozoic Era in Earth's geologic history.

This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The two periods of the Cenozoic Era, Tertiary and Quaternary, granted the mammals the time and space to evolve since the dinosaurs became extinct.