Part one of term paper
When dinosaur bones were first found they thought that they belonged to giant lizards. The word "dinosaur" came from the Greek words deinos, meaning “marvelous” or “terrible,” and sauros, meaning “lizard.” The larger dinosaurs must have seemed to be terrible to the smaller animals. Some of the first dinosaurs were only about as b ...

Part two of term paper
... first discovered the fossils and bones shortly under the surface of the Earth. After scientists got more into the study they started to dig deeper down. The fossils get so deep because of the years of rocks and dirt that were piled up on it. Some also get buried if a dinosaur were to die next to a river, and over the years the river probably changed courses a little, so therefore the bones would be covered up. They would actually be in the bank of the river. The Evolutionary theory states that ...