Sentences with phrase «bones than a dinosaur»

Story is more bare bones than a dinosaur skeleton.

Not exact matches

A former curator of what's now the Royal Alberta Museum, Currie also helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alta.; in fact, the latter museum was launched in part because Currie was digging up more dinosaur bones than the Royal Alberta could store.

The last time I tried I was told that dinosaur bones were planted all over the world by the devil to make us believe the earth is older than the 4000 or so years that the zealots calculate it to be.

If we're finding dinosaur bones and ancient human bones, there is more support for this research than there is against it.

Zoo, Children's Museum, Aquarium, Natural History Museum (dinosaur bones are sooooo cooooooool)... it's unlikely we'll receive more memberships than we'd use over the course of a year;) Great list, Kate!

Extra staff and more than two dozen volunteers worked thousands of hours meticulously whittling away 66 million years of sediment that entombed the dinosaur bones.

With a few bones of his own, vertebrate paleobiologist John A. Ruben of Oregon State University contends that dinosaurs are more akin to komodo dragons than cockatiels.

However, in the evolution from dinosaurs to birds, it lost its lower end, and no longer connects to the ankle, being shorter than the other bone in the lower leg, the tibia.

The fibula bone (orange) in Dinosaurs is as long as the tibia and reaches down to the ankle (upper left), whereas in adult birds, it is splinter - like and shorter than the tibia, missing its lower end (upper right).

«The work I was doing in Morocco, which was the same work Stromer had been doing in Egypt, became about more than «here are some dinosaur bones.»

But the synchrotron - based imaging, which uses light brighter than 10 billion Suns, meant the team could tease out the chemical ghosts lurking within the preserved dinosaur bones.

The reason is that dinosaur legs probably contained thicker pads of cartilage at the bone joints than scientists assumed.

But Saitta says being able to study dinosaur bones matters more than who owns them.

As Horner says, «I figured I could get more Psittacosaurus bones in the shortest period of time than any other dinosaur.»

Recently, for example, researchers studied the bone joints of dinosaurs and those of modern - day birds and reptiles and concluded that some dinosaurs must have sported much thicker - than - expected pads of cartilage in their joints.

With a few bones of his own, Ruben contends that dinosaurs are more kin to a crocodile than a cockatiel.

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.

More than 6000 bones from the species — more than any other Alaska dinosaur — have been excavated and categorized.

Sure, you can still find a few Tyrannosaurus Rex firms feasting on a couple of ostrich - head - in - the - sand clients, but you'll soon find more petrified dinosaur bones than living, breathing, traditional firms billing by the hour.