How do they name dinosaurs and the periods of time that relate to dinosaurs?
27 February 2005
Question
How do they name dinosaurs and the periods of time that relate to dinosaurs?
Answer
They name dinosaurs after something distinctive. I named a dinosaur not so long ago because it had a big nose. We tend to use Latin or Greek words because of tradition.
We know how old they are because we use isotopes to date particular bands of rock, and thus infer from that how old the fossils are.
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