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San Diego Natural History Museum: Dinosaur Dig WebsiteSan Diego Natural History Museum: Dinosaur Dig Website
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San Diego Natural History Museum
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San Diego Natural History Museum: Dinosaur Dig

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The San Diego Natural History Museum provides dinosaur lovers with plenty of information and fun facts with links to Finding Fossils and Dinosaur Bytes.

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Concepts

mass extinction, reptiles, dinosaurs

Additional Tags

ankylosaur, finding fossils, jurassic jumble, mesozoic era

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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