This collection puts together a popular and informative BBC series of dinosaur documentaries. On 3 discs, this set includes “Before the Dinosaurs: Walking with Monsters” , “Walking with Dinosaurs”, “Allosaurs”, “Chased by Dinosaurs” and a bonus program, “Trilogy of Life: The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs, Beasts and Monsters”. The dinosaurs in this set are both computer-rendered and animatronic. The “Walking With” dinosaur documentaries are narrated by expert, Kenneth Branagh and the “Chased” series is narrated by zoologist, Nigel Mavens. The Ultimate Dinosaur Collection is an informative and visually appealing set of dinosaur documentaries, however these discs drop many of the special features released on the original DVD.

Discovery Essential Dinosaur Pack. Discovery Channel. (2008)

This combo-pack combines 7 of Discovery channel’s most popular dinosaur documentaries. This is a 2 disc set that includes “Valley of the T-Rex”, “T-Rex: New Science, New Beast”, “When Dinosaurs Roamed America”, “Utah’s Dino Graveyard”, “Dinosaur Planet”, “The Mystery Dinosaur” and ” Dinosaurs: Return to Life?”. Discovery channel uses computer generated animation of dinosaurs. Narration is not done by experts, but by actors—for example, John Goodman, but there are many interviews with scientists and experts. This set of dinosaur documentaries are able to inform a wide audience (children to adults) of the dinosaur research that has occurred, although some of this research has become outdated.

The Complete Walking With…Collection. BBC Video (2000)

BBC provides us with another set of dinosaur documentaries. This one includes the three programs from BBC’s Emmy-award winning series. On 5 discs, the complete collection includes “Walking with Dinosaurs”, “Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special”, and “Walking with Pre-historic Beasts” and also includes many special features such as behind-the-scenes features and interviews with the creators. The DVDs provide more realistic computer generated dinosaurs and uses interesting angles—which usually works well. This series does provide some humor to the narrating scene. This set does not include 2 other dinosaur documentaries that were part of the Walking with…series– “Cavemen” and “Life Before Dinosaurs”

Pre-Historic Earth: Natural History. BBC Video (2008)

This disc-set supplies a historical outlook of pre-historic times in BBC’s total “Walking with…” series. It’s a 6 disc set including “Before the Dinosaurs”, “Walking with Monsters”, “Walking with Dinosaurs”, “Allosaurus”, “Walking with Pre-Historic Beasts” and “Walking with Cavemen”. These dinosaur documentaries aims to recreate the dinosaur world with computer-rendered dinosaurs in a natural environment. They are highly informative and take a scientific outlook. However, it has been said that some of the information in this film isn’t fully accurate such as showing particular animals living together that may not actually have been possible. All in all, Pre-Historic Earth: Natural History is a comprehensive set of dinosaur documentaries and information.

Prehistoric Collection: From Dinosaurs to the Dawn of Man. History. (2009)

An overview of prehistoric times, History provides us with 4 highly popular dinosaur documentaries. On 8 discs, this set includes, “Jurassic Fight Club”, “Prehistoric Mega-storms,” “Journey to 10,000 B.C.”, and “Clash of the Caveman.” Jurassic Fight Club is focused only on dinosaurs and provides really great fight scenes as the name suggests. With decent computer-animation, the exciting fight scenes are also accompanied by expert narration and interviewers who truly love dinosaurs. The other 3 series aren’t exactly dinosaur documentaries but they do relate to the prehistoric era. A broad range of knowledge on the pre-historic timeline is given in this DVD but it does use a common documentary film layout which avid documentary watchers may be familiar with.

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These are some of the most recognized dinosaurs.

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Also known as t-rex, this dinosaur is known to be the king of all predators. It had a massive jaw with huge teeth and powerful legs that can walk long distances. However, its arms were very small. Some scientists believe that t-rex was not a predator. Instead it was just a large scavenger that fed on dead prey. They argue that t-rex’s arms were too small to hold on to prey.

True predators like raptors have long arms with big talons. T-rex’s arms are useless in comparison.

Triceratops

This was probably my favorite dinosaur when I was a kid. It is widely believed that the triceratops used its three horns as a defensive weapon.

But there are also those that believe that the horns were used for courtship rituals similar to deer, goats, and other horned animals. So the horns were just used for display.

This is supported by the fact that torosaursus and triceratops are actually the same animal. Torosaurus has a bigger thrill with holes and is actually shown to be a triceratops that has fully grown.

Velociraptor

When you think of velociraptor, you may remember the film Jurassic park. In the film the velociraptors stood taller than humans and was a fierce predator. However, in reality it actually stood around 2 feet tall and weighed only 33 pounds. The velociraptor was also covered in feathers. Only Utahraptor stood taller than a human and was the largest species of raptor.

Spinosaurus

Many people think that t-rex was the biggest predator. But spinosaurus was actually the largest predator to walk this earth. Some scientists believe that the elongated spines were a hump. Others think that it was a sail designed to cool down the body temperature of the animal.

Pachycephalosaurus

This dinosaur had a thick skull covered in dull spikes. The thick skull lead to the idea that these dinosaurs engaged in head butting combat. However, the dinosaur’s skull was not designed or shaped to withstand impact. Thus, this theory has been dismissed.

Facts like these can be very interesting for your kid. There are tons of species of Dinosaurs for kids to look up.

Sending children back home with some dinosaur goodies as a thank you will make them extremely satisfied and come back for more. Moreover, when kids come to dinosaur parties, they come with expectations of great party favors which they can enjoy. Give them something that they can have and remember for a long time. Buy things related to dinosaurs which are made of good quality material which is not unhealthy, and more importantly is soft. Let us take a look at a few party favors which kids will love.

A good idea when you think about dinosaur party favors is to give them something that combines dinosaurs with things they use daily. Dinosaur stickers, for example, are a great idea for small kids since they can stick it anywhere on their walls or doors and adore them all day. Of course, you can also give them stickers which they can stick in their books, bags etc.

Giving dinosaur replicas as dinosaur party favors. This is a great idea since children will be able to take them anywhere they want to. Let them create their own characters and watch them at the creative best making their own movies. Organize a game around the replicas and make the kids’ party ever more enjoyable. Dinosaur replicas can be simple or sophisticated. Instead of plain vanilla dinosaur replicas, you can gift children toys that glow in the dark.

Kids also love dinosaur tattoos very much. It is something that they can show each other and be happy about. This is another great party favor for dinosaur themed parties. Dinosaurs glowing in the dark create a whole new dimension for creativity for the kids. It is not even necessary that you provide them any one of the above party favors. An innovative combination of the above and even more will thrill the kids even more. Combine dinosaur key chains with dinosaur bags and so on and so forth, there is no end to what you can produce.

Of course, you can always get dinosaur party kits from the shop, but come on, be more creative and create kits of your own at home. These are just a few ideas for dinosaur party favors to get you started. You can do the same with any other theme. Go to the drawing board, get creative and you will come up with thousands of ideas for many more parties to come.

Recently, researchers found an interesting detail about the tuatara. David Lambert and his colleagues at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution analysed DNA sequences they found in the bones of tuatara estimated to be 8000 years old.

They published their findings in the journal Trends in Genetics. As reported by EurekAlert and LiveScience, their discoveries were astounding: they found that the tuatara is the fastest evolving animal. “What we found was that the tuatara has the highest molecular evolutionary rate anyone has measured,” professor Lambert says according to EurekAlert. Lambert’s study suggests that the tuatara has been evolving faster that animals like the cave bear, lion, ox or horse.

So how can an animal that has shown no signs of change for aeons be changing faster than many others? Professor Lambert says, “the rate of molecular evolution was uncoupled from the rate of morphological evolution.” In other words, inner change or change at the molecular level does not correspond to what we see on the outside.

Yet evolutionary theory predicted that slow change or no change would have corresponded to slow change or no change at the molecular level. Far from supporting the neo-Darwinian theory of molecules-to-man evolution, the “living dinosaur” shows that there are grave problems with the view.

Like other living fossils such as the crocodile, army ant, cockroach, Coelacanth and horseshoe crab, the tuatara is evidence for resistance to the type of change that Darwinian evolution desperately needs.

Some animal species have a history of incredible change. The dog (Canis lupus familiaris), which according to Linnean classification belongs to the same species as the gray wolf (Canis lupus), is capable of an enormous amount of variety, brought about by artificial selection. But this is not the kind of change that evolution in its neo-Darwinian sense requires.

And neither is the variety evident in the DNA of a reptile that has resisted change for a very long time.

Good guidance for younger children is to decorate around a theme that interests them and then add color schemes and maybe other furniture from there. There a number of different ways to go and movie characters or cartoon favorites have a lot of merchandise available for purchase, but can become dated very quickly. Generally, unless you love re-decorating yourself you want to guide the child top a theme that will last several years, not only is one of the television season.

Nature or science themes are a popular choice and dinosaur bedding seems to stand the test of time. Dinosaurs themselves have been extinct for millions of years that they still conjure up dreams of living with dinosaurs and have provided the basis for several very popular movies. Dinosaur bedding for boys, like any bedding for boys, may suffer a hard life as the rest of the things in the room, but if it spurs on an interest in science than it is worth it.

Sports or animal subjects are always a good choice too as many children have favorite pets and love playing sports. Again bedding decorated after these themes should be widely available and hopefully stand up to the wear and tear that children will give it, before they outgrow it.

The reports go on to mention that the scientists were surprised to find such tissue preserved in ancient bones. One report carried by MSNBC on March 24, 2005 was titled Scientists recover T. Rex soft tissue: 70-million-year-old fossil yields preserved blood vessels. Notice that the title contains the assumption that the “fossil” was 70 million years old.

The facts of the science of biochemistry collide very violently with the paleontologist’s assumption that the T. Rex bones are that old. The soft tissue in the bones strongly infers that they are no more than several thousands of years old. This turns the evolutionary paradigm on its head.

The soft tissue, including blood vessel walls, are composed of protein. Biochemicals such as proteins are notoriously unstable and breakdown
rapidly. These biochemicals have short duration spans in almost any imaginable environment.

Proteins are extremely large molecules consisting of hundreds of amino acids arranged in precise sequence. When an animal is buried its body
is attacked by bacteria, many varieties of which can thrive in an anoxic (oxygen free) environment.

All proteins are broken down and digested by the bacteria. If that weren’t enough the surrounding dirt or sand that covered the animal also infiltrates the body structures.

Petrification occurs when silica from the surrounding soil or sand enters the bones and essentially replaces the bone with silica which hardens to become stone. Petrification can occur very rapidly under the right conditions such as under hot volcanic ash.

You may be surprised to learn that very few dinosaur bones are actually petrified. Most contain the original calcium and phosphorus that was present when the dinosaur was alive. Most dinosaur bones were not examined to try to find soft tissue remnants.

However in recent decades there have been many discoveries of well preserved dinosaur bones. Blood remnants and soft tissue has been found in some of these bones. The finds have been reported by scientists who are evolutionists.The discoveries of blood or soft tissue have been so numerous it is beyond the scope of this article to detail them all.

The find that was reported by MSNBC mentioned above has to do with a Tyrannosaurus Rex leg bone that was broken so it could be lifted by
helicopter. When the researchers noticed how well preserved it was they sent parts of it to Dr. Mary Schweitzer, an evolutionist who was well known for her work on finding remnants of hemoglobin in dinosaur bones from an earlier find.

She dissolved the bone samples in a solution of the chemical EDTA which dissolved away the hard calcium and freed the soft tissue within. The tissue from the dinosaur bone was seen to be unmistakably flexible.

The article “Answering objections to creationist ‘dinosaur soft tissue’ age arguments” by Drs. Carl Wieland and David Menton in the journal “TJ, the in depth journal of CREATION” 19(3) 2005 explains Schweitzer’s method and even has photographs of the soft tissue that was recovered from the T. Rex bone. Interestingly the prestigious evolutionist journal Science also has detailed articles on this and other finds of soft tissue in dinosaur bones.

Soft tissue in dinosaur bones is just part of the growing body of scientific evidence that indicates that the earth is young. The earth’s age is not billions or even millions of years old but strong evidence infers that it is less than ten thousand years old. I believe the evidence points to the earth’s age being within the 6,000 year time span recorded in the Bible.

Sadly the evolution oriented scientists have downplayed the significance of the data. Some paleontologists have claimed that soft tissue could have been preserved under the right conditions for 65 million years. Such a long preservation is absurd according to creationist Dr. Carl Wieland who appeals to the plain facts of biochemistry.

The fact that biochemicals are unstable and would degrade rapidly is well established in mainstream science. See the article “Instability and
decay of the primary structure of DNA” by T. Lindahl in Nature 362(6422):709-715, 1993.

The evolutionists, to their credit, have faithfully reported the findings. Yet most have not abandoned the multibillion-year-old earth paradigm. The old earth paradigm is very ingrained in everything from textbooks to the mindset of college faculties.

Soft tissue in dinosaur bones clearly points to young earth and hence not enough time for evolution to occur. Evolution itself should thus be
abandoned. Most evolutionists have simply circled the wagons, made minor adjustments in their concept of fossilization and gone on as if
nothing happened.

It is a familiar pattern. Strong scientific evidence fatal to evolution comes along, evolutionists make minor adjustments and then claim that science is open minded and self correcting. Of course, in this case science has not corrected itself enough.

The abandonment of evolution would be the proper correction of science. The role of the scientist is to go where the evidence leads. In the case of blood remnants and soft tissue in dinosaur bones the evidence clearly points to young earth.

If scientists will just base their calculations on fossil records, the age of dinosaurs cannot be guaranteed. Although there were studies on their teeth’s growth rings, these were constantly replaced throughout the dinosaur’s lifespan. Thus, when compared to modern large mammals and reptiles, scientists estimated that dinosaurs could have lived for about 50 up to 150 years.

Paleontologists noted that the smallest dinosaur was the Compsognathus. It is even about the same size as a chicken. An adult Compsognathus can reach 2 feet in length, more attributed to its thin, long tail. The Troodon had the largest brain out of all the species. This is in relation to its actual body size. This is why they are thought as the most intelligent amongst other dinosaurs. In fact, most paleontologists regard them as smarter than an ostrich, making it smarter than any living reptile on Earth now.

Contrary to belief that the toughest dinosaur was the Tyrannosaurus Rex, it is the Deinonychus. This is because the T-Rex is more like a scavenger than a ferocious hunter. This made the Deinonychus the meanest ad toughest dinosaur. It is merely 2.7 meter long, 1.5 meters tall and it weighs just like an average man. Despite their small size, they are noted as “the most extraordinary predators of all time”. Due to its large serrated teeth, keen eyesight, great agility, grasping hands and sickle-shaped 5-inch long claws on every hind’s foot, this dinosaur variety is a very ferocious enemy.

Despite the size of dinosaurs, their eggs are quite small. In fact, the gigantic Sauropod’s eggs are no bigger than volleyballs. One reason is the fact that a bigger egg entails thicker shells so that it will not collapse. A very thick shell can actually pose 2 big problems. The 1st problem is that it is too thick for the oxygen to permeate. This means, the embryos will not be able to breathe. The 2nd problem would be the fact that the shell will be too thick to be pushed by the hatchlings.

The Galliminus which can travel about 35 mi per hour is considered as the fastest dinosaur. The Coelophysis ranks second at an estimated 25 mi per hour. The third in ranking is the T-Rex at 15 mi per hour. The Ancient Wing or the Archaeopteryx is a small creature with feathers. It is similar to a chicken but it can fly. It is actually the 1st known bird, showcasing how birds are descendants of dinosaurs. At current, paleontologists and scientists note that there are about 440 types of dinosaurs that existed. Even if no one actually heard the voice of a dinosaur, many scientists guess that the T-Rex had a raspy and deep voice, the Hadrisaur had a voice like a honking 5-ton goose and the Apatosaurus had a voice similar to a herd of snorting horses.