Mary Anning

Brainstorm and plan. 

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	May 21, 1799 Lightning Dad Poor - sell stuff
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	Curios  Lyme Regis Skull of a crocodile - brother - 12 years old Extinction was a new idea 1812 - ichthyosaur 1824 - plesiosaur Georges Cuvie
Paragraph 4	Later	1847 died of cancer
Conclusion

Mary Anning is a famous fossil hunter in Lyme Regis

Mary Anning was born in May 21, 1799 and she got struck by

lightning but was unhurt, some people say that the lightning

gave her special powers, Mary’s dad taught her how to find

fossils and she started finding fossils and selling them for

her family because her family is poor and she wants to raise money for them, she was selling her sea shells that she found.

Mary’s father also taught her to find what they were

called curios at the nearby beach and famous cliffs at

Lyme Regis, Mary’s brother Joseph showed her to the

cliffs and Mary straight away could see that she saw no

ordinary creature skull. When she found the fossil the

people didn’t believe her and Mary thought that extinction

was a new idea and in 1812 Mary found a ichthyosaur fossil

after a few years later in 1824 Mary found a plesiosaur fossil

later on a few years later in 1828 Mary discovered a pterosaur

fossil and George Cuvie is a famous French zoologist and he

believed her.

Finally in 1847 Mary died of cancer when she was

just 47 years old.

After Mary died she became famous for her fossil hunting

Joan Wiffen

Brainstorm and plan. 

Joan Wiffen

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction		Joan Wiffen is a famous fossil hunter in New Zealand
Paragraph 2	Early life	Born in ?? Lived where??  Married to…?? Kids??  What was her job?? First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends.  Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car.
Paragraph 4	Changing ideas about fossils	An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980.  Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5	Later life	Honorary doctorate in 1994.  Died in ?? She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe. Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa.
Conclusion

Joan Wiffen is a famous fossil hunter in New Zealand.

She was born in 4 February 1922 and lived in Hawkes Bay,

she is married to Pont Wiffen and they had 2 children, her job

is being a fossil hunter.

Joan’s first ever fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite

which made her interested in finding fossils. In 1975

Joan found a tailbone from a theropod and she found it

in Mangahouanga Stream. She found it was she used

different tools to split rocks open. She went on to find more

fossils from six different species.

In 1980 a Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar

confirmed that it was a dinosaur bone. Other people

started searching for fossil and a man called Dr Greg

Browne and he found a Dinosaur footprint in Nelson

another man named Jeffery Stilwell found  Several dinosaur

bones in the Chatham Islands and another named Brendan Hayes

found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur in the South

of Port Waikato 

Joan Wiffen received an honorary doctorate in 1994.

She died in 30 June 2009 age 87 and died in Hawkes Bay.

Joan’s work was important to remember forever

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs

By Moana and Langiola

Palaeontologists

Paleontologists are people that studies on dinosaurs.

Mary Anning was born in 1799 and found a plesiosaur

fossil that was almost complete and in 1828 she found

a pterosaur fossil she found it in Lyme Regis and found some

in England, in 1829 Mary discovers the fossil of an extinct

fish called a squaloraja and in 1847 Mary Anning died

because she had cancer. Joan Wiffen was born in 4 of

Feb 1922 and she found the first dinosaur in New Zealand

then she found a small bone in Mangahouanga Stream,

a few days later Dr Ralph confirmed in 1980 that  she

had found a tailbone from a theropod then Joan made

many more amazing discoveries over the following years.

Richard Owen was born in 20 of July 1804 and he is

married to Caroline Amelia and they had 1 son named

William Owen, Richard Owen discovered a Fossil

Animal and he died in 18 December 1892.

Fossils

Fossils are dead animals or plants.

They are usually skeletons found

embedded in rock. Sometimes fossils

are footprints or poo. Small animals or insects

get stuck in tree sap which hardens and traps

them forever. Large animals can get trapped

in ice or their carcass gets trapped in layers

of rocks. Over thousands of years pressure

builds up and the ground. Next the mould

left is filled with minerals that form rock.

This rock shape is the fossil - an exact

replica of the dinosaurs. This process

takes 10,000 years. Palaeontologists

find fossils when the top layer of

dirt of all rock washes all away. 

Age Of Dinosaurs

The Mesozoic Era is also known as the

Age of Dinosaurs, this is when dinosaurs lived.

The Age of Dinosaurs is made up of 3 time periods.

Triassic Period (251-200 million years ago),

Jurassic Period (200-146 million years ago),

Cretaceous Period (146-65 million years ago).

200 mya: Small mammals appear. 150 mya: Birds

evolve from dinosaurs. 140 mya: First flowering

plants appear, 130 mya: First snakes evolve from

lizards and 65 mya: Dinosaurs die out.

What were dinosaurs like?

Some dinosaurs stand on 2 feet and

some stand on 4 feet. These are the 4

types of dinosaurs Theropod, Sauropod,

Thyreophorid, and Cerapod. Some dinosaurs

are a carnivore eater and some are a herbivore

eater but some dinosaurs are an omnivore eater.

Some dinosaurs are birds means Avian but some

dinosaurs are not birds means Non Avian. Dinosaurs

can run fast but some can’t run. Some dinosaurs had

slow metabolisms which means they could only walk

slowly as they didn’t have a lot of energy. Some had a

fast metabolism so they had a lot of energy to run fast.

Metabolism means the way your body converts food to

energy. Dinosaurs have a hole at the back of their eye

but reptiles don’t have a hole at the back of their eye

and reptiles are warm-blooded. Warm-blooded means

when your blood temperature always stays the same.

Some Dinosaurs live with a family like the theropods and

dinosaurs lay eggs.

Extinction Event

66 million years ago, there was

an extinction event which killed

all the dinosaurs. 

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Age of Mammals

Cenozoic Era is also known as the

Age of Mammals. It is made of 3

time periods. Paleogene Period

(65-23 Mya), Neogene period

(23-2.6 Mya) and Quaternary

Period (2.6-0 Mya). During the

paleogene period, large mammals

appear, including horses and

camels. During the Neogene period,

Hominins (the ancestors of humans)

begin to walk on two legs. During the

Quaternary Period Modern humans evolved.

Dinosaur Knowledge

Room 7

Dinosaur knowledge

Prior Knowledge	In 2 weeks, we learnt that...
Animal Predator Dino is the root word ‘Saurs’ means something Species  Extinct  Huge Large bones Long necks Eggs  Sharp teeth Long tails Eat people Different kinds Spikes Horns Mammals 4 legs	Bipedal means 2 feet and quadruped means 4 feet. Some dinosaurs are bipedal and some are quadrupeds. Some can change between the two stances. They are sturdy. Theropod is a 3 clawed dinosaurs Dinosaurs are warm-blooded, which means their blood temperature is always the same Carnivore means a meat eater Herbivore means a plant eater Omnivore means it can eat plants and meat Some dinosaurs are huge and some are small. Typically, huge dinosaurs were sluggish (slow).  Dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. They started existed 230 million years.  They died because of an extinction event, most people think this was because a meteor hit the Earth.  Dinosaurs legs go out the bottom of their hip bones, whereas reptiles bones go to the side of their hips. Reptiles do not have an extra hole in their skull, but dinosaurs do.  Mary Anning found lots of fossils on a cliffside in England in the 19th century. She was born in 1799 and died in 1847. She survived a lightning strike as a baby. In 1824 she found the first fossil.	Non-avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs that are not birds. Avian means birds. Metabolism means how fast or slow your body converts food into energy Diverse means a big range Modifications means changes. Dinosaurs have modifications such as spikes, armour, horns or crests.  Clade means family. Lineage means ancestors/descendants  Paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including dinosaurs There are 4 main groups of dinosaurs; theropods, sauropods, ankylosaurus and pterosaurs. Titanoboa was top of the food chain after the dinosaurs died. It killed people by constricting people. It spent most of its time in the water because it was super heavy. It was 13m long, as big as a bus.  Hominins existed when 7-6 million years ago, the first humans to walk on 2 feet.  People did not exist when dinosaurs existed.	Adaptation is something that changes over time.  Ecology - how animals relate to each other Fossils are made when dinosaurs die and their bones get trapped in rock or mud. The bones break down over time but leave a mould, which is filled with rock. This becomes the fossil.  Dinosaurs sometimes eat each other.  There were 3 periods of time that have dinosaurs. This is called the ‘age of dinosaurs’ also known as the ‘Mesozoic Era’; Triassic period, Jurassic period, and Cretasous period.  Then there were 3 more periods in time, “Age of mammals”, also known as ‘Cenozoic Era’; Paleogene Period, Neogene period and  Quaternary period. Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil (a theropods tailbone) in NZ in 1975, in Hawkes Bay. She died in 2009.  Dinosaurs laid eggs and they lived in family groups.