Sentences with phrase «by early dinosaurs»

So, an overall mix of creatures dominated by early dinosaurs didn't really look that much different from earlier ones where dinosauromorphs were predominant, he notes.

Not exact matches

In the early 1980s, Jack, who had started with the business in 1976 by sweeping floors during summer college breaks, told his mother that she owned a dinosaur.

[Jean - Michel] Aulas sounded the alarm, declaring that it was time for the club's «pharaohs» and «changing - room dinosaurs» to move on, and by the time the transfer window closed earlier this month, Hugo Lloris, Aly Cissokho, Kim Källström, Ederson, John Mensah and club captain Cris — among others — had all departed.»

The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.

By holding their limbs directly beneath their bodies, the argument went, dinosaurs would have moved faster and more efficiently than the cousins of crocodiles and relatives of early mammals that also lived at the time.

Early mammals were hit by a selective extinction at the same time the dinosaurs died out — generalists that could live off of a wide variety of foods seemed more apt to survive, but many mammals with specialised diets went extinct.

Two fossilized footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia, were likely made by birds during the Early Cretaceous, making them the oldest known bird tracks in Australia.

A team led by Xing Xu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing used computer software to examine evolutionary relationships among early birds and related dinosaurs, based on 374 skeletal characteristics.

The event also caused huge changes in land vegetation, and while it remains a mystery why the dinosaurs survived this event, they went on to fill the vacancies left by the now extinct wildlife species, alongside early mammals and amphibians.

This finding puts the final nail in the coffin of the long - standing view that early mammals were primitive, shrew - like insectivores, overshadowed by the dinosaurs.

Until now, the title for the earliest known dinosaur has been jointly held by two species, Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor, both discovered in Argentina.

In the early 1990s, scientists discovered an unusual cache: a set of large, thick - shelled fossil eggs topped by a single dinosaur embryo, previously entombed in rocks smuggled out of the Henan province of China.

But the past decade or two of research, which is marked by the discovery of thousands of specimens of early birds and flying dinosaurs, also shows that feathers were an early evolutionary innovation — even if they probably arose for reasons unrelated to powered flight, such as insulation or sexual display.

«The growing weight of evidence has been winning over scientists, myself included, to the view that endothermy evolved quite early in dinosaurs and was inherited by birds,» he says

There is a growing diversity of feathered dinosaurs close to the origin of birds that many research groups are looking at to understand how gliding or flight aerodynamics evolved, and whether these traits were inherited by the earliest birds.»

However, the new dinosaur study by University of Cambridge Ph.D. student Matthew Baron redraws the classifications, after the comparison of 74 early dinosaurs and their relatives.

It's not surprising that some crackpot could come up with this curve — for example, there are «museums» in the United States that portray dinosaurs living side - by - side with early humans.

Thanks to the data provided by citizen scientists, the researchers were able show that the diversity of bird beaks expanded early in the group's evolutionary history, around the time other dinosaurs died out.

The earliest sharks predate the dinosaurs by more than 200 million years.

To call Early Man wildly anachronistic would be an understatement: the opening flashback sequence that depicts humans and dinosaurs living side by side is but the first of its obvious and unclever bizarrities.

Take the scene early on in which the film's heroes — an all - female government expedition, led by biologist Lena (Natalie Portman), tasked with exploring a quarantined zone known only as «Area X» — encounter a mutated alligator large enough to be mistaken for a small dinosaur, surreal enough to be a mass hallucination.

ARK: Survival Evolved, the highly successful dinosaur - themed survival game launched by Studio Wildcard a couple years ago on Steam Early Access, finally released on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in late August.

VG247 came to this conclusion based on a few factors: the game's apparent late - 19th - century - early - 20th - century setting; Guillot's past work with Ubisoft, creating ads for games like Driver and Red Steel 2 (apparently ruling out him making an ad for Red Dead Redemption 2); a poll issued by Ubisoft in 2015 asking players what types of settings they'd like to see the Far Cry series adopt (among the top contenders were the Wild West and Dinosaur times).

Among this summer's highlights are James Capper's giant sculptural digging machine, a concrete canyon by Tania Kovats, an early Thomas Heatherwick Pavilion and a trio of giant Corten steel dinosaurs from Jake and Dinos Chapman — who are also showing in the temporary exhibition space.

It's not surprising that some crackpot could come up with this curve — for example, there are «museums» in the United States that portray dinosaurs living side - by - side with early humans.