Sentences with phrase «age of dinosaurs»

If you got stuck after the first question, the new Age of the Dinosaur exhibition at London's Natural History Museum will remedy that.

Today, thanks to an abundant fossil record and more than a century of collecting by paleontologists, Laramidia is the best known major landmass for the entire Age of Dinosaurs, with dig sites spanning from Alaska to Mexico.

Another bone of contention for the team concerns the boundary between the Cretaceous — the last age of the dinosaurs — and the Paleogene, the period that began 66 million years ago.

But his voice rises and intensifies when he says, «We're living in the golden age of dinosaur discovery.»

It emerged in the later age of dinosaurs, winging through the ancient skies.

This air tour will take you back to the Australian age of dinosaurs and then on through the days and courage of those that pioneered inland Australia, conquering the outback, establishing pastoral and mining industries and creating essential services such as The Royal Flying Doctors and Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service (now Qantas) that have transformed vast areas once inhospitable into the vibrant industries and lifestyle of today.

It's just a few million years after an asteroid struck Earth and brought the age of dinosaurs to an abrupt end 66 million years ago.

These cousins of squid and octopus were the iconic marine animals of the age of dinosaurs, flourishing worldwide for 300 million years or more before the KT extinction wiped them out.

The group is focused on unearthing fossils from dinosaurs that lived between 100 and 40 million years ago, what scientists refer to as the Cretaceous - Paleogene, or K - Pg, a period that marks the end of the age of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals.

The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic era, also known as the Age of Dinosaurs.

However, flowering plants arose only about 140 million years ago, quite late in the evolution of plants, toward the end of the age of the dinosaurs, but since then have diversified spectacularly.

When Peter Delfyett (pictured left) was in the first grade, his father took him to see the science fiction movie Journey to the Beginning of Time, a story about four boys who traveled back to the age of dinosaurs.

«The discoveries show that penguin diversity in the early Paleocene was clearly higher than we previously assumed,» says Mayr, and he adds, «In turn, this diversity indicates that the first representatives of penguins already arose during the age of dinosaurs, more than 65 million years ago.»

In their study, published in the Springer scientific journal The Science of Nature, the team of scientists therefore postulates that the evolution of penguins started much earlier than previously thought, probably already during the age of dinosaurs.

Kirkland and Shimada suspect the monster lungfish, which dates from between 160 million and 100 million years ago — during the age of dinosaurs — fed on turtles.

«An ancient killer: Ancestral malarial organisms traced to age of dinosaurs.»

The deep layers Røy examined have been undisturbed for 86 million years, meaning that this population of microbes dates back to the age of the dinosaurs.

New research published today in Nature Geoscience by Richard Zeebe, professor at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), and colleagues looks at changes of Earth's temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) since the end of the age of the dinosaurs.

«In studying one of the most dramatic episodes of global change since the end of the age of the dinosaurs, these scientists show that we are currently in uncharted territory in the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

Although they look the similar and both constrict their prey, the pythons and boas last shared a common ancestor 70 million years ago in the age of the dinosaurs.

An asteroid five miles wide would cause major extinctions, like the one that may have marked the end of the age of dinosaurs.

An international team of scientists has discovered a new lineage of extinct plankton - feeding sharks, Pseudomegachasma, that lived in warm oceans during the age of the dinosaurs nearly 100 million years ago.

But you're saying primates were running around in the age of dinosaurs?

But new research suggests that crocodilians employ an entirely separate sensory system that first evolved during the age of the dinosaurs.

Elis Newham, PhD student in Engineering and the Environment and co-author of the study, which is published Proceedings of the Royal Society B, said: «The traditional view is that mammals were suppressed during the «age of the dinosaurs» and underwent a rapid diversification immediately following the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Fifteen hundred hours of digging into northwest India's sedimentary rock has brought forth the nearly complete skeleton of a 150 - million - year - old ichthyosaur — a marine reptile that roamed the seas in the age of dinosaurs, National Geographic reports.

«This is a pretty old whale that goes almost half - way back to the age of the dinosaurs.

This is the world's best record of the faunal and floral changes that occurred worldwide at the end of the age of dinosaurs and the beginning of the age of mammals.

The asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago didn't incinerate life on our planet's surface — it just broiled it, a new study suggests.

Huge pulses of volcanic activity are likely to have played a key role in triggering the end Triassic mass extinction, which set the scene for the rise and age of the dinosaurs, new Oxford University research has found.

Fossils show that aphids have lived since the age of the dinosaurs, though, so they must have some way to guard against this sticky situation.

Extraterrestrial impacts ended the age of the dinosaurs.

Roberts said that «the presence of bone - borings provides a CSI - like opportunity to study the skeleton and reconstruct the timing of death and burial, and offers rare evidence of ancient insects and complex food webs during the age of the dinosaurs.»

In southern Bolivia, just outside the country's capital, Sucre, sites encompass more than 5,000 footprints representing 465 different dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous, near the end of the age of dinosaurs.

When discussing the controversy over atmospheric oxygen levels during the age of the dinosaurs, Stephen Battersby asks: «Did the dinosaurs...

During the age of dinosaurs, tectonic forces slowly tore Pangaea apart.

maybe it's a plesiosaur left over from the age of the dinosaurs.

Did the age of dinosaurs begin with a roar or a whimper?

On the Indonesian island of Komodo, monsters reminiscent of the age of the dinosaurs roam the jungles and beaches.

By DAVID PATERSON For 250 million years, throughout the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth was warm and wet, almost tropical.

The stone at Hell Creek dates back to the end of the age of dinosaurs roughly 65 million years ago and was laid down by rivers that flowed eastward through swamps to an inland sea that once ran from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

Two tiny tomatillo fossils have kicked the origin of nightshade plants back to the age of dinosaurs.

Researchers have discovered what may have been the world's first burrowing and tree - climbing mammals — two shrew - sized critters that lived in what is today China during the age of the dinosaurs.

The new finds «give us a very different view of mammal life during the age of dinosaurs,» says John Wible, an expert in mammalian evolution at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the work.

One reason is that ostriches trace their upright locomotion back 230 million years to the age of dinosaurs, while our ancestors walked upright just 5 million years ago.

Richards and colleagues write that while the Deccan eruptions probably spewed massive amounts of carbon dioxide and other noxious, climate - modifying gases into the atmosphere, «It's still unclear if this contributed to the demise of most of life on Earth at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.»

Research suggested Quetzalcoatlus, which lived during the age of dinosaurs some 230 million to 65 million years ago did not catch prey in flight, but rather stalked them on land.

One under Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is thought to have triggered massive volcanism, spewing lava across 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square km) at the Deccan Plateau region of what is now India about 65 million years ago, coinciding with the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

«Dinosaur remains from the Arabian Peninsula and the area east of the Mediterranean Sea are exceedingly rare because sedimentary rocks deposited in streams and rivers during the Age of Dinosaurs are rare, particularly in Saudi Arabia itself» says Dr Tom Rich from Museum Victoria in Australia.