关于此课程： 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.
制作方： 阿尔伯塔大学
教学方： Philip John Currie, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Dinosaur Paleobiology
Department of Biological Sciences
| 级别 | Beginner |
| 承诺学习时间 | 12 weeks of study, 1-2 hours/week |
| 语言 | English, 字幕： Italian, German, French |
| 如何通过 | 通过所有计分作业以完成课程。 |
| 用户评分 |
授课大纲
第 1 周
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 视频, 4 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Instructional Staff
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Meet Your Presenter: Betsy Kruk
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Course Glossary
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 1 Course Notes
- 视频: Size
- 视频: Skeleton
- 视频: Saurischians
- 视频: Ornithischians
- 视频: Appearance
- 视频: Muscles
已评分: Appearance and Anatomy
第 2 周
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 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 2 Course Notes
- 视频: Fossilization
- 视频: Field Work
已评分: Death and Fossilization
第 3 周
Eating
This module looks at the variety of food types, feeding habits, and feeding adaptations amongst the major groups of dinosaurs.
4 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 3 Course Notes
- 视频: Teeth
- 视频: Claws
- 视频: Determining Diet
已评分: Lesson 3
第 4 周
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 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 4 Course Notes
- 视频: Limbs
- 视频: Trackways
- 视频: Metabolism
已评分: Lesson 4
第 5 周
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 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 5 Course Notes
- 视频: Young Dinosaurs
- 视频: Males & Females
已评分: Lesson 5
第 6 周
Attack and Defense
Examines the behaviours and structures that may have served for attack or defence through the lifetime of a dinosaur.
3 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 6 Course Notes
- 视频: Offensive Adaptations
- 视频: Intraspecific Interactions
已评分: Lesson 6
第 7 周
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 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 7 Course Notes
- 视频: Holotype
- 视频: Differentiating Species
已评分: Lesson 7
第 8 周
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 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 8 Course Notes
- 视频: Convergence
- 视频: Birds
已评分: Lesson 8
第 9 周
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 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 9 Course Notes
- 视频: Stratigraphy
- 视频: The Age of Dinosaurs
已评分: Lesson 9
第 10 周
Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics
This module presents the basic concepts in plate tectonics and the evolution of the earth’s surface.
4 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 10 Course Notes
- 视频: Continental Movement
- 视频: Paleoclimates
- 视频: Dinosaur Diversity
已评分: Lesson 10
第 11 周
Dinosaur Origins
This module will look at the evolution of dinosaurs from non-dinosaurian archosaurs.
3 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 11 Course Notes
- 视频: Diapsids
- 视频: Rise of the Dinosaurs
已评分: Lesson 11
第 12 周
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 视频, 1 阅读材料
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Lesson 12 Course Notes
- 视频: Causes of Extinction
- 视频: Chicxulub Impactor
- 视频: Resurrecting Dinosaurs
已评分: Lesson 12
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评分和审阅
Very helpful course for getting proper knowledge about dinosaur evolution as well as extinction.
Excellent overview. Very well presented in nicely done videos. Tons of information!
This was very informative and enjoyable
SA
Very informative, well laid out and above all easy to follow & understand.