Sentences with phrase «bigger than the dinosaurs»

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Take an intro astronomy class and they can explain in basic terms (using basic concepts in math and physics) how time unfolded and what conditions were — and subsequently why «magical bits of everything» formed in to matter than led to the birth of the dinosaurs... It's ok to open your mind; and perhaps even God was the cause of the Big Bang.

«This is bigger than finding any dinosaur,» Chatterjee said.

One of the biggest dilemmas for those who want to believe that dinosaurs evolved into birds is that the so - called feathered dinosaurs found thus far are dated to be about 20 million years more recent than Archaeopteryx.

J.H.: A lot of the research I've been doing lately has to do with dinosaurs changing drastically the way they look as they get older, and in the past people have just thought because the littler ones were so much different than the bigger ones that they had to be different species.

One is at least 10 percent bigger than Sue, the controversial South Dakota dinosaur that heretofore was the largest T. rex ever uncovered.

Early dinosaurs probably looked a lot more like Big Bird than scientists once suspected.

Roughly six feet bigger than T. rex and a ton or two heavier, Giganotosaurus nonetheless was a relatively fast dinosaur whose pointed tail apparently provided balance and the ability to make quick turns as it ran.

Making the generous assumption that humans can survive multiple ice ages and deflect an inevitable asteroid or comet strike (NASA predicts that between now and then, no fewer than 10 the size of the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs will hit), the researchers forecast we will then encounter a much bigger problem: an aging sun.

Now another team, analyzing what may be the most intact dinosaur mummy discovered yet, report fresh details about the skin of a hadrosaur nicknamed Dakota, which might have been bigger and moved more quickly than previously thought.

The researchers were able to see signs of watery adaptation not seen in other dinosaurs: a small nostril located far back on the head, apparently to limit water intake; relatively long forelimbs; big flat feet suitable for paddling as well as walking on muddy ground; and very dense limb bones, which would have allowed Spinosaurus to submerge itself rather than float at the surface.

They were small — the largest was no bigger than a badger — and paleontologists used to think that mammal evolution only took off once a mass extinction wiped all the non-avian dinosaurs off the planet.

Rather than colliding with big blue, it whiffs and zooms onward into the cosmos, birthing an alternate timeline in which dinosaurs rule the planet for millions of years to come.

There were books than any consumer could ever read long before self - published authors filled Amazon's catalog with vampire - dinosaur - Big Foot - erotica.

That was some of the big - picture news in Heidi MacDonald's report on this year's Diamond Retailer Summit, held last week just before Baltimore Comic Con, and the tidbits were fascinating as well: DC's Hanna - Barbera comics are doing better than expected, Marvel's «Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur» and «The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl» are doing well in Scholastic Book Fairs and other non-direct market channels, and BOOM!

Some robo - dinosaurs created by Virtuos reach more than half a million polygons, making them the biggest high quality art assets ever developed by our talented art teams.

It could, he believed, be akin to — if not bigger than — the Permian - Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago and the Cretaceous - Tertiary extinction that cleared out the dinosaurs and led to the Age of Mammals — and us.

Attack a niche market: Small niche players can respond with more agility and relevance than the big brand dinosaurs.