Об этом курсе: Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology is a 12-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of non-avian dinosaurs. Topics covered: anatomy, eating, locomotion, growth, environmental and behavioral adaptations, origins and extinction. Lessons are delivered from museums, fossil-preparation labs and dig sites. Estimated workload: 3-5 hrs/week.
Автор: University of Alberta
Преподаватели: Philip John Currie, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Dinosaur Paleobiology
Department of Biological Sciences
| Уровень | Начинающий |
| Выполнение | 12 weeks of study, 1-2 hours/week |
| Язык | Английский, Субтитры: Французский, Итальянский, Немецкий, Испанский |
| Как пройти курс | Чтобы пройти курс, выполните все оцениваемые задания. |
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Программа курса
НЕДЕЛЯ 1
Appearance and Anatomy
This lesson covers the diversity in dinosaur appearances, and will be able to identify major features of the major groups of dinosaurs.
7 видео, 4 материала для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Instructional Staff
- Reading: Meet Your Presenter: Betsy Kruk
- Reading: Course Glossary
- Reading: Lesson 1 Course Notes
- Видео: Size
- Видео: Skeleton
- Видео: Saurischians
- Видео: Ornithischians
- Видео: Appearance
- Видео: Muscles
Оцениваемый: Appearance and Anatomy
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
Death and Fossilization
This module describes how fossils form, how we interpret the taphonomy of skeletons and bonebeds, and looks at the possible biases taphonomic events may create in the fossil record.
3 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 2 Course Notes
- Видео: Fossilization
- Видео: Field Work
Оцениваемый: Death and Fossilization
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
Eating
This module looks at the variety of food types, feeding habits, and feeding adaptations amongst the major groups of dinosaurs.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 3 Course Notes
- Видео: Teeth
- Видео: Claws
- Видео: Determining Diet
Оцениваемый: Lesson 3
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
Moving Around
This module helps students understand the general modes and styles of locomotion in the major dinosaur groups. It also describes general methods of evaluating hypotheses on locomotion.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 4 Course Notes
- Видео: Limbs
- Видео: Trackways
- Видео: Metabolism
Оцениваемый: Lesson 4
НЕДЕЛЯ 5
Birth, Growth and Reproduction
This module provides a generalized life history of a dinosaur, from birth through adulthood, including reproduction. The student will be able to describe major techniques of evaluating growth stages and rates in dinosaurs.
3 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 5 Course Notes
- Видео: Young Dinosaurs
- Видео: Males & Females
Оцениваемый: Lesson 5
НЕДЕЛЯ 6
Attack and Defense
Examines the behaviours and structures that may have served for attack or defence through the lifetime of a dinosaur.
3 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 6 Course Notes
- Видео: Offensive Adaptations
- Видео: Intraspecific Interactions
Оцениваемый: Lesson 6
НЕДЕЛЯ 7
What is a Species?
This module will teach the different ways of defining what a species is. Students will be able to compare the strengths and weaknesses of different species concepts for different situations.
3 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 7 Course Notes
- Видео: Holotype
- Видео: Differentiating Species
Оцениваемый: Lesson 7
НЕДЕЛЯ 8
Evolution
This module will describe the basic theories of speciation, and discusses how how these different methods of speciation may have occurred, including both hypothetical and empirical examples.
3 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 8 Course Notes
- Видео: Convergence
- Видео: Birds
Оцениваемый: Lesson 8
НЕДЕЛЯ 9
Stratigraphy and Geologic Time
This method provides basic stratigraphic concepts and the scale of earth history. Students will understand the evolution of dinosaurs through time, including which groups evolved when and where.
3 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 9 Course Notes
- Видео: Stratigraphy
- Видео: The Age of Dinosaurs
Оцениваемый: Lesson 9
НЕДЕЛЯ 10
Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics
This module presents the basic concepts in plate tectonics and the evolution of the earth’s surface.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 10 Course Notes
- Видео: Continental Movement
- Видео: Paleoclimates
- Видео: Dinosaur Diversity
Оцениваемый: Lesson 10
НЕДЕЛЯ 11
Dinosaur Origins
This module will look at the evolution of dinosaurs from non-dinosaurian archosaurs.
3 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 11 Course Notes
- Видео: Diapsids
- Видео: Rise of the Dinosaurs
Оцениваемый: Lesson 11
НЕДЕЛЯ 12
Dinosaur Extinction
The module will examine the end-Cretaceous extinction event, and provide examples of vertebrate groups that both persisted and died out during the event.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Lesson 12 Course Notes
- Видео: Causes of Extinction
- Видео: Chicxulub Impactor
- Видео: Resurrecting Dinosaurs
Оцениваемый: Lesson 12
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This was a very fun and interesting course. Learning about the dinosaurs themselves, but also where they came from and the evolution from their beginning through to the birds that we know them as today was fascinating. One of the best parts though is learning about the different pieces of a 4.6 billion year puzzle and how they all fit together. It has made the world we live seem more beautiful to me.
So happy I decided to take this course! I gained such a thorough introduction to dinosaur paleobiology, and I really enjoyed the simple format. This course has inspired me to take more courses on paleontology, which is a childhood aspiration come true :)
I'm loving and enjoying this course so much. I love dinosaurs and the way they explain topics about them is so interesting
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Easy to follow and complete -- which there were reminders as to when things were due