Since a young age, children have learned about dinosaurs. Whether visiting various museums or watching videotapes of movies such as The Land Before Time, the child takes away at least on major message from their lesson: the dinosaurs are no longer living. They are extinct. In youth, a child under normal circumstances does not question the adult practitioner on their evolutionary knowledge; in fact; it rarely would skim the surface of an infantile mind in wondering how the wiser acquired that bit of information. However, as the child develops, it may begin to realize that if a gigantic being such as the dinosaurs did in actuality once roam the earth, there must be some means of learning this information. Research and lessons will teach the knowledge thirsty youth that scientists, or specifically geologists and paleontologists, that a method known as the fossil record leads to a deciphering of...