Click2Flicks - Jurassic Park III - Chapter 3

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>JURASSIC PARK III</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 3 - THE JURASSIC PERIOD</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Although "Jurassic" is a commonly used term today (thanks to Michael Crichton’s <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345370775.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b>book</b></a> and Steven Spielberg’s <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXAT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b>movie</b></a>), what does the word "Jurassic" really mean? </p> <p>"Jurassic" was a <a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/jurassic/jurassicstr.gif" target="_blank"><b>period</b></a> of history named for the <a href="http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0550/05520128_Q.html" target="_blank"><b>Jura Mountains</b></a> that border France and Switzerland - the <a href="http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/photoinfo.cgi?PHOTO=STS068-168-133" target="_blank"><b>place</b></a> where rocks of this age were <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/suisse_espace/" target="_blank"><b>first</b></a> studied. (This link depicting the Jura Mountains will permit you to zoom in.)</p> <p>It was a time, paleontologists believe, BEFORE <i><a href="http://www.imax.com/t-rex/main2.html" target="_blank"><b>Tyrannosaurus rex</b></a></i> (the <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/stories/dinos/tunein_vid6.html" target="_blank"><b>biggest</b></a> predator ever to stalk the American West) and <a href="http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/gallery/kelly/triceratops.jpg" target="_blank"><b>one</b></a> of its favored <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/stories/dinos/tunein_vid7.html" target="_blank"><b>prey</b></a>, the <a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ornithischia/tricerwhole.gif" target="_blank"><b><i>Triceratops</i></b></a>. (You will need QuickTime to watch how scientists determine which animal was the <a href="http://members.aol.com/dinoplanet/battle.html" target="_blank"><b>hunter</b></a>.) Both species likely lived during the <a href="http://photo2.si.edu/dino/cretac.gif" target="_blank"><b>Cretaceous Period</b></a>.</p> <p>What was the world like during the Jurassic Period? What kinds of dinosaurs lived then? The answers to those questions may surprise you.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="jurassic_park_ch2.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="jurassic_park_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="jurassic_park_ch4.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>