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Interview with a Paleontologist

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  • What was the weirdest dinosaur Carmen discovered?
    The Gigantoraptor.
  • How can you become a paleontologist?
    and go to college.
    Study science
    read books
  • How old are the oldest fossils?
    About 3.5 billion years old.
  • Where can you find fossils?
    You can find them everywhere
    even in your own garden.
  • What covers the fossils before they become hard?
    Sand and dirt.
  • How long is a Diplodocus?
    As long as three school buses.
  • What is the biggest fossil Carmen discovered?
    The tail of a Diplodocus.
  • Why does Carmen like the Spinosaurus?
    Because it was beautiful and very tall.
  • What inspired Carmen to become a paleontologist?
    Seeing a Diplodocus skeleton in a museum.
  • How heavy was the Gigantoraptor?
    As heavy as a hippo.
  • What do Diplodocuses eat?
    They eat only plants.
  • What are fossils?
    Fossils are the bones or remains of dead animals and plants.
  • What’s Carmen’s favorite dinosaur?
    The Spinosaurus.
  • What did the Spinosaurus eat?
    Meat.
  • Where does Carmen Soto work?
    At Dinosaur National Monument in the United States.
  • What did the Gigantoraptor look like?
    Like a chicken with a beak like a parrot.
  • What are the oldest fossils called?
    Stromatolites.
  • Where did the Spinosaurus live?
    North Africa.
  • What does a paleontologist do?
    A paleontologist studies the history of life on Earth and looks for fossils.
  • What’s the dinosaur joke in the interview?
    What do you call a dinosaur that cannot see? A Doyouthinkhesaurus.
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