Animal Kids and their Parents From Dinosaurs through the Ice Age

Throughout time, every animal we’ve seen on the street, in zoos, in videos and even museums was once a kid. But we never really think about this much. This is particularly true concerning extinct animals from the Dinosaurs through the giant Mammals of the Ice age.

When we walk through a natural history museum, we marvel at the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex. In movies, we witness the hunting skills of the cunning Raptors as they plan joint strategies. We root for Dinosaurs like Triceratops who wished merely to be left alone and live its life munching on vegetation, but possessing the will and weaponry to battle predators on impressive terms.

Going forward 65 million years we marvel at the giant Mammals such as the Woolly Mammoth and Rhino. We hunt with skeletons of Smilodon, the Saber Cat that rivals anything today. We mourn the loss of the Cave Bear, thought to be the only Bear that lived in family clans.

The fossil record reveals all of them in their now extinct glory. But we never really see much of their kids, primarily because their fossils are smaller and don’t stand up to the ravages of time. Only now are we beginning to see that some Dinosaurs had maternal instincts and the Mammals long gone were excellent parents.

Through unique and original graphic representations, this has been brought to life. It is replete with parents and their young together and brought to the imagination through images of fossils lost for millions of years. This is a record of lives cut short and lost in time. They resurrect sagas of young lives ended all too soon through illness, accident or predation.

Marveling at the fossil record and inspired through curiosity, we bring them back to life. It is brought to you through the efforts of Michael G. Leventhal, Executive Director of the Educational Not For Profit Finger Lakes Fossil Farm, Ltd. with it’s web Presence of http://FingerLakesFossilFarm.org which has been on the web since 2008.