Paleontology
Ancient Marine Reptiles

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Offered by University of Alberta. Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles is a four-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the ... Enroll for free.

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Michael Caldwell
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Offered by
University of Alberta

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r/Paleontology • comment
17 points • CHzilla117

Coursera offers four free courses hosted by the University of Alberta:

Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology https://www.coursera.org/learn/dino101

Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds https://www.coursera.org/learn/theropods-birds

Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles https://www.coursera.org/learn/ancient-marine-reptiles

Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution https://www.coursera.org/learn/early-vertebrate-evolution

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r/Dinosaurs • comment
3 points • DinoGarret

The University of Alberta has a good free online course with tons of videos and information that's very up to date. You could skip the quizzes if you're not interested in that aspect.

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r/Paleontology • comment
2 points • Nunseik

This one? https://www.coursera.org/learn/ancient-marine-reptiles

If there is enough people interested we can do it next (probably in January).

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r/Paleontology • comment
1 points • Arkell-v-Pressdram

If online learning's your thing, the University of Alberta offers a few online palaeontology courses via Coursera that's geared towards general adult levels. Being based in Alberta dinosaurs are very obviously the most popular ones, but the other courses are pretty up to snuff. No mammals or invertebrate stuff though.

Courses offered:

- Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology (https://www.coursera.org/learn/dino101) 

- Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds (https://www.coursera.org/learn/theropods-birds)

- Paleontology: Marine Reptiles (https://www.coursera.org/learn/ancient-marine-reptiles)

- Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution (https://www.coursera.org/learn/early-vertebrate-evolution)

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