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About the Course

Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology is a 12-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of non-avian dinosaurs. Topics covered: anatomy, eating, locomotion, growth, environmental and behavioral adaptations, origins and extinction. Lessons are delivered from museums, fossil-preparation labs and dig sites. Estimated workload: 3-5 hrs/week....

Top reviews

RS

Nov 15, 2020

This was such an awesome course! Philip and Betsey were great to listen to, they make the course fun and every lesson is fascinating to learn. My love for dinosaurs have grown so much more.

II

Nov 24, 2020

Well done, nicely organized, easy to go at your own pace. Perhaps hits vocabulary too much. I'd rather have a stronger paleoecology componet. Still, very enjoyable and full of stories.

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By J.

Aug 25, 2025

It was very interesting to learn about the dinosaurs. The examples from the museum were cool and you could see the presentor had a passion for dinosaurs. However they would use difficult words (understandable) but without giving a really clear definition which resulted in me having to google it myself. Oh also some of the links in the class notes don't work anymore However I did learn a whole lot about dinosaurs and my knowledge is now a lot more then it was before (Dino's lived and at one point they died and also Trex). I now know about the importance of a dinosaurs hips and what fenestrae are and a lot more

By Caitlyn L (

Apr 18, 2024

Hesperonychus is classified as saurischian, and in an earlier lesson we were told that saurischians had forward-tilted pubes. But, Hesperonychus has a backward-tilted pubes. Birds have backward-tilted pubes yet descended from theropods, which were saurischian. its wrong please fix this for the other learners so they dont get it wrong.

By Sophia F C M

Jul 23, 2022

Comecei o curso há pouco tempo, está em inglês e não existe a possibilidade de colocá-lo em português, por isso a aprendizagem do conteúdo acaba sendo imensamente mais difícil. Peço que em breve exista a possibilidade de incorporar outras línguas à tradução do curso.

By Bernardo

May 14, 2020

Good for beginners, but as good as I could've been. the facts used in this are like from 2014. I would benefit from using more up to date facts, could've also focused more on some non-dinosaurian animals.

By SALEEKHA P K T

Jun 14, 2020

An awesome course..enjoyed very much..Thank you coursera

By Samuel G

Apr 28, 2022

it was aight.

By Mainul H

May 14, 2020

good

By Brent L

Sep 30, 2019

It is a fascinating subject, that's why I listened, however,

The young lady giving the lectures to be polite should have a desk job. Very poor public speaker with nervous hand gestures, monotone delivery,hard swallowing. What is an interesting subject matter becomes insufferable. That said, perhaps the use of charts listing types, locations and ancestry, specific features, etc. would help keep track of a vast subject matter, alas, now more of a jumble than I had anticipated. Also, please eliminate a good many of the intra-lecture pop quizzes, unless your target audience is 8th and 9th graders. Unnecessarily simplistic, bordering on insulting. The week end tests are well thought out, thought provoking.

By Michael A G

Jul 29, 2024

Very unscientific. Much fiction is presented as fact.