Sentences with phrase «velociraptor fossils»

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In 1991, William Hammer, an NSF - funded researcher hunting for fossils in Antarctica's Beardmore Glacier region, discovered this skull (left) and a large femur, which belonged to a completely unknown species of therapod — a bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur whose members include the more familiar tyrannosaurs and Velociraptors.

Lee and his colleagues have performed the most comprehensive analysis yet of fossil theropods, the two - footed meat - eating dinosaurs, like Velociraptor, from which birds evolved.

After analyzing fossils from more than a dozen specimens, researchers reported in April in Nature that the herbivore was actually a kinder, gentler cousin of such bitey carnivores as T. rex and Velociraptor.

The Jehol fossils have transformed our understanding of dinosaurs by showing that the relatives of Velociraptor and T. rex had a feather - like body covering, like birds.

The small fossils that line the walls of the Fighting Dinosaurs exhibit have helped him further establish an evolutionary lineage from Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor to the emu, the tit, and the vulture.

He emerged with the equivalent of paleontological gold: more than 350 new species (including the dinosaurs Protoceratops and Velociraptor), the first fossils of Cretaceous mammals, and the first nests of dinosaur eggs.

Tiny knobs identified on the forelimb fossils of the Velociraptor suggest that the dinosaur species had feathers, according to researchers.

I7:» wouldn't there be fossil evidence no matter how squashed in sedimentary rocks: nuclear waste hazards, landfill linings, velociraptors with titanium hip replacements, that sort of thing?»