Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:14AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #1 - During the Ice Age, the sea level was different around the world. This made the shorelines different, and the Channel Islands different than we see today. During this era – called the Pleistocene – how were the islands different ? And what was the distance from Anacapa Island to the mainland ? click on this button to find out and come back and tell us what you find out ……
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:18AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #2 - What is a fossil and what is the study of fossils called ? button
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:18AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #3 - Describe two theories on how large mammoths got from the mainland to the Channel Islands during the Ice Age ? Which do you think is the most likely ? button
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:19AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #4 - What was the climate an the vegetation like out on the Islands when the first Mammoths found their way there ? button
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:19AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #5 - What type and size of mammoths first arrived on the Channel Islands ? button
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:19AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #6 - In what way did the mammoths change over time in size ? button
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:20AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #7 - Where else in the world have pygmy mammoths undergone dwarfism been found ? button And what do all of these locations have in common with the Channel Islands ?
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #8 - What happened to the animals in this true story that helps us understand how the mammoths could have reached the islands ? button
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #9 - ADOPT an ISLAND - Pick one of these island buttons to learn about mammoths on different California Channel Islands. Come back and tell us what you learned at the button you chose – pick any of these to follow the trail to the mammoth story …. San Miguel button Santa Rosa button Santa Cruz button …. Have any mammoth’s been discovered there ? what kind and by who ? are there any mammoth mysteries on your island left to tell ?
Your Channel Islands Fossil Guide: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 6:25AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #10 - Great work so far – now lets do a Channel Island Paleontology Quiz – type in your name in the top box, your teacher’s email in the next box – then try it out ! You can come back and do it again until you get them all right !!! There are two pages to the quiz, use the button at the bottom of page one to get to page two. When you are ready to submit, then click on validate at the bottom of page two. It will tell you right away how your scored – and help you learn the right answers ! button
Carl, Camp Trainer: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:11PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#1 - The distance from the tip of Anacapa Island to the mainland would have then been less than five miles ( compared to eleven today ).
Sherie: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:16PM PST (-0800 GMT)
dig #6: Mammoths on the islands shrunk in size to adapt to their changing environment.
Joe: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:18PM PST (-0800 GMT)
The distance from the tip of Anacapa Island to the mainland would have then been less than five miles ( compared to eleven today ). it is a time where long-furred mammoths roam the mainland - and - somehow cross the Channel to inhabit the islands. In the Channel region, there is a different landscape than we can see today. The shoreline is one hundred and fifty to three hundred feet lower than we see it today - which means that the location where the cities of Santa Barbara and Ventura are today would have been five miles inland.
Joe: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:20PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Fossils are the remains of very ancient life that has been buried for thousands of years and preserved in a very ancient layer of earth.
Paleontology is the study of the fossil record.
Sherie: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:21PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Paleontology is the study of fossils, and fossils are remains of living things that have been buried for 100's or 1000's of years in rock, sand, or water.
Sherie: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:27PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#7 Pygmy Mammoths have been found on islands off of italy and india. All pygmy mammoths have been found on islands where they were cut off from the main land, and evolved over time in accordance with their surrounding environments.
Julio Robledo: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:39PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #8 - What happened to the animals in this true story that helps us understand how the mammoths could have reached the islands ? button
Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr. learned in an interview with Tom Rockwell, the geologist who discovered the 95% complete mammoth skeleton on Santa Rosa in 1994, that a circus boat once sank off the Carolinas on the eastern American seaboard. The ship went down thirty miles from land. " The only animals that made it ashore were the elephants. The elephants of today are surprisingly strong swimmers, a characteristic they seem to have inherited directly from their ancestors, the mammoths. They are even known to use their trunks like a snorkel to keep a fresh supply of air even when somewhat submerged !
Dig #9 - ADOPT an ISLAND - Pick one of these island buttons to learn about mammoths on different California Channel Islands. Come back and tell us what you learned at the button you chose – pick any of these to follow the trail to the mammoth story …. San Miguel button
‘Herbie’, who was accustomed to chasing vandals off the Native American village remains, found protruding from a cliff top the tusks of an extinct species Elphus Imperator - the great elephant, according to his wife, Elizabeth Sherman Lester.
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The larger animals are called Mammuthus Columbi or Elphus Imperator, standing up to 14 feet tall. They evolved into a five to six foot pygmy mammoth known as a Mammuthus exilis.
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No mammoth bones have yet been found on Santa Cruz Island
Have any mammoth’s been discovered there ? what kind and by who ? are there any mammoth mysteries on your island left to tell ?
Dig #10 - Great work so far – now lets do a Channel Island Paleontology Quiz – type in your name in the top box, your teacher’s email in the next box – then try it out ! You can come back and do it again until you get them all right !!! There are two pages to the quiz, use the button at the bottom of page one to get to page two. When you are ready to submit, then click on validate at the bottom of page two. It will tell you right away how your scored – and help you learn the right answers ! Button
Joe: . . . . Sun, Jul 28, 2:39PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Fossils are the remains of very ancient life that has been buried for thousands of years and preserved in a very ancient layer of earth.
Paleontology is the study of the fossil record.
Mr. Ortiz: . . . . Tue, Jul 30, 3:12PM PST (-0800 GMT)
WHALES .....................
The Santa Barbara Channel is one of the best places in the world for whale watching. ..............
No living animals have captured our imaginations as have the great whales... They fire our imaginations and stab at our emotions. They inspire our art, literature, and music. And so they should. The indescribable blend of grace, power, and beauty of a whale as it glides underwater, leaps toward the sky, or simply lifts its flukes and slides into the sea symbolizes a vanishing poetry of the wild.
- Dr James Darling, With The Whales
Mr. Ortiz: . . . . Tue, Jul 30, 3:13PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig#1 How many cetaceans live in the Santa Barbara channel?
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Mr. Ortiz: . . . . Tue, Jul 30, 3:13PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig#2 Which whale is most commonly seen along the Santa Barbara coast?
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Mr. Ortiz: . . . . Tue, Jul 30, 3:13PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig#3 What are some characteristics that all mammals exhibit?
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Mr. Ortiz: . . . . Tue, Jul 30, 3:14PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig#4 What is the term used by scientists when whales jump out of the water and land on their back.?
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Mr. Ortiz: . . . . Tue, Jul 30, 3:14PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig#5
What is the estimated current population of the gray whale?
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Mr. Carl, Camp Trainer: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:10AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #1 - The distance from the tip of Anacapa Island to the mainland would have then been less than five miles in the past( compared to eleven today ).
Mr. Carl, Camp Trainer: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:13AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#$ The climate was cooler than it is today.
LWalker: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:20AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig#2 Fossils are the remains of ancient life that has been buried millions of years.
LWalker: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:38AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig #3 The mammoths could have been washed out to sea and they swam to the island or they smelled the vegetation and swam 5 miles to get to the island. The scientists believe the latter scenario happened. I agree with the scvientists.
LWalker, Palm View: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 10:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
The first mammoths that crossed from the mainland to Santarosa Island were full sized animals, about fourteen feet tall as adults. As the years went by, the mammoths adapted to the specific islands environment, and became smaller as time proceeded. Eventually they developed a distinctly different body scale, one we now call dwarf or pygmy mammoths, and reached heights of 4-8 feet.
: . . . . Sat, Aug 17, 11:10AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#1 The distance from the tip of Anacapa Island to the mainland would have then been less than five miles ( compared to eleven today ).
sj brian: . . . . Wed, Aug 21, 10:28AM PST (-0800 GMT)
1. Anacapa is five miles from the mainland.
sj brian: . . . . Wed, Aug 21, 10:42AM PST (-0800 GMT)
1. Anacapa is five miles from the mainland.
sj brian: . . . . Wed, Aug 21, 11:00AM PST (-0800 GMT)
1. Anacapa is five miles from the mainland.
sj brian: . . . . Wed, Aug 21, 11:17AM PST (-0800 GMT)
1. Anacapa is five miles from the mainland.
sj brian: . . . . Wed, Aug 21, 11:33AM PST (-0800 GMT)
1. Anacapa is five miles from the mainland.
Mrs. Hudiburg, Terrace Elementary: . . . . Wed, Aug 21, 2:32PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Fossils are the remains of very ancient life that has been buried for thousands of years and preserved in a very ancient layer of earth. Paleontology is the study of the fossil record.
Mrs. Hudiburg, Terrace: . . . . Wed, Aug 21, 2:35PM PST (-0800 GMT)
The first mammoths that crossed from the mainland to Santarosea were full sized animals, about fourteen feet tall as adults. These were the Imperial Mammoths.