Grade Level: High School
Science Content Standard: 10.5
High School Biology Enrichment Standard: Evolution
Language Arts Content Standard: 1.2
Description: Why
do many scientists consider birds to be dinosaurs? What does this mean
for understanding how dinosaurs lived? The exhibits in the Yale Peabody
Museum's Great Hall
and hands-on fossils specimens and casts provide a focus for these
questions and other recent theories about these incredible animals,
along with the topics of fossilization, extinction, evolution and
behavior. While this program focuses mainly on the fascinating
prehistoric world of the dinosaurs, it also covers early birds, marine
reptiles, and flying reptiles.
Photo/Image (top): The discovery of Deinonychus antirrhopus
in the 1960s by Yale’s John Ostrom made the relationship of birds among
theropod dinosaurs a central theme in late 20th century paleontology
and changed the way we think about dinosaurs.
