SciPop: Where Science Intersects Pop Culture

"The Open Dinosaur Project was founded to involve scientists and the public alike in developing a comprehensive database of dinosaur limb bone measurements, to investigate questions of dinosaur function and evolution. We have three major goals:1) do good science; 2) do this science in the most open way possible; and 3) allow anyone who is interested to participate. And by anyone, we mean anyone!"

This interactive website created by PBS allows users to explore the evidence and competing hypotheses as they learn about "What Killed the Dinosaurs".

This website includes the following information: Everything You Wanted to Know; Dinosaur Fieldwork & Expeditions; What's New in Dinosaur Research; Dinosaur FAQ; Top 10 Misconceptions; and Dinosaur Research & Resources.

"More than 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. The vast majority (over 95%) died out because they couldn’t compete successfully for food or other resources. Or they failed to adapt to changes in their local environment over tens or even hundreds of millions of years. For the rest, something more dramatic happened. They perished during relatively short-term mass extinction events that killed off large numbers of species worldwide. Find out about the big five extinction events that each eliminated over half of all species on the planet. Sometimes in less than a million years."

"Although the Cretaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) extinction event is the most well-known because it wiped out the dinosaurs, a series of other mass extinction events has occurred throughout the history of the Earth, some even more devastating than K-T." (archived page)