Sentences with phrase «carnivorous dinosaurs»

The study aimed to test the hypothesis that data from extant birds could be used to predict the incubation behaviour of Theropods, the group of carnivorous dinosaurs from which birds descended.

Fabien Knoll, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, lies next to the new exceptionally large carnivorous dinosaur footprints found in Lesotho.

If we want to see an animal like a velociraptor [a small carnivorous dinosaur], we will be able to create one by genetic engineering.

In addition to Nasutoceratops, the collection includes a variety of other plant - eating dinosaurs — among them duck - billed hadrosaurs, armored ankylosaurs, dome - headed pachycephalosaurs, and two other horned dinosaurs, Utahceratops and Kosmoceratops — together with carnivorous dinosaurs great and small, from «raptor - like» predators to a mega-sized tyrannosaur named Teratophoneus.

As embryos, birds seem to develop the equivalent of our middle three fingers, but theropods — two - legged, primarily carnivorous dinosaurs from which birds are thought to have evolved — sport the equivalent of our thumb, index, and middle fingers.

The other dinosaur tracks include: a sauropod, or long - necked plant - eater; small theropods, crow - sized carnivorous dinosaurs closely related to the Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus rex; and pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles that included pterodactyls.

This is not to mention the thousands of species of meat eating dinosaurs, all of whom ate carnivorous dinosaurs which were, themselves, bigger than busses — and they, too had to be fed!

An international team of scientists has discovered the first evidence that a huge carnivorous dinosaur roamed southern Africa 200 million year ago.

«Carnivorous dinosaurs strolled along beach: Fossilized footprints found in Germany provide new insights into prehistoric hunters» life.»

Befitting of Brown, our eyes struggle to decipher his rambling scrawl, but once comprehended, the words are quite self - assured, if disarmingly simple: «Quarry No. 1 contains [several bones] of a large carnivorous dinosaur not described by Marsh....

Dr Lara Sciscio, postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, said: «This discovery marks the first occurrence of very large carnivorous dinosaurs in the Early Jurassic of southern Gondwana — the prehistoric continent which would later break up and become Africa and other landmasses.

A new carnivorous dinosaur species named Dracoraptor hanigani uncovered in the south of Wales is possibly the oldest known Jurassic dinosaur from the UK, according to a study published January 20, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by David Martill from the University of Portsmouth, England, and colleagues from National Museum Wales and University of Manchester.

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.

It was the second dinosaur, and the first carnivorous dinosaur, unearthed in Antarctica.

«It's possible that the sea level dropped during this period — a relatively short time from a geological perspective — and that the mainland carnivorous dinosaurs immigrated at that point,» surmises Dr. Wings, who is heading a research project funded by VolkswagenStiftung at the State Museum of Hanover on the overall Jurassic habitats of the region.

The reconstruction of the discovery site suggests that carnivorous dinosaurs hunted herbivorous island - dwelling dinosaurs about 154 million years ago.

To date, the tracks are the only indication that the region was temporarily dry, and that large mainland - based carnivorous dinosaurs were present on the former Europasaurus island.

During the 1930s, in the badlands of southern Montana's Crow Indian Reservation, Brown discovered a diminutive carnivorous dinosaur now named Deinonychus.

The term «Megatheropods» describes the giant two - legged carnivorous dinosaurs, such as the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) which fossil evidence shows was around 12 metres long.

The old theory held that as carnivorous dinosaurs developed into birdlike creatures, they became smaller — not larger, as in Gigantoraptor's case.

It was still living in fear of other, more primitive carnivorous dinosaurs called allosaurs, which were the apex predators of the day.

The parallel trackway patterns made by four crow - sized carnivorous dinosaurs suggests they were hunting or foraging as a group.

Carnivorous dinosaurs did not roar like lions, and herbivores did not bellow like bulls says Matsumi Suzuki, director of Tokyo's Institute of Sound and an authority on voiceprints.

Dr Deeming said: «In 2009 a study in the journal Science suggested that it was males of the small carnivorous dinosaurs Troodon and Oviraptor that incubated their eggs.

Based on analysis of the footsteps she has concludes that the two animals measured respectively 1.6 meters and 1.1 meters at hip height, and that they are probably carnivorous dinosaurs of the species Megalosauripus.

«Many birds — which are the descendants of dinosaurs — use their beaks in social display, and there is plenty of evidence that carnivorous dinosaurs engaged in face - biting among themselves, perhaps targeting the sensitivity of the face to make a point.»

A new dinosaur from Portugal is Europe's largest - ever terrestrial predator and was the biggest carnivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic Period, according to paleontologists who studied its remains.

Nightlife during the Mesozoic era was full of activity and fraught with dangers, suggests a new study that found some dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles were nocturnal, with carnivorous dinosaurs likely sneaking up on victims after dark.

«Studies of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs − such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor − keep finding more and more bird - like traits, such as feathers, wishbones, hollow skeletons and a three - fingered hand,» Lee said.

Large terrestrial carnivorous dinosaurs, known as theropods, evolved more rapidly than their counterparts to shrink steadily for more than 50 million years, and acquired the necessary characteristics to evolve into today's birds of flight, researchers said in the study, which examined a detailed family tree of these dinosaurs and their avian descendants to determine how this unlikely transformation occurred.

«That's because it is the first evidence of an extremely large meat - eating animal roaming a landscape otherwise dominated by a variety of herbivorous, omnivorous and much smaller carnivorous dinosaurs.

This huge carnivorous dinosaur that lived about 85 million years ago had a breathing system much like that of today s birds, a new analysis of fossils reveals, reinforcing the evolutionary link between dinos and modern birds.

Some 142 million years ago, two carnivorous dinosaurs strolled along the beach in what is now Germany.

Many companies in the United States face that struggle, even ones that are not infested with carnivorous dinosaurs.

Twelve years ago, footprints of carnivorous dinosaurs were discovered and excavated in a quarry near Goslar.

In North America about 80 million years ago, pretty much the only very large carnivorous dinosaurs were in the tyrannosaurid group.

Much of Currie's research has focussed on fossils from Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park and other Cretaceous sites, as well as the evolution of carnivorous dinosaurs and the origin of birds.

Archaeopteryx remains the oldest known bird fossil, not only documenting the evolutionary transition from reptiles to birds, but also confirming that modern birds are the direct descendants of carnivorous dinosaurs.

A team at James Ross Island discovered the fossilized bones of what turned out to be a therapod, a carnivorous dinosaur related to tyrannosaurs.

In some places, the carnivorous dinosaurs also left much deeper tracks in the sediment than elsewhere.

Up on one of these chunky sandstone minarets studding the southern Albertan badlands, Hadfield spied what appeared to be the remains of a small carnivorous dinosaur.

Theropods encompass all carnivorous dinosaurs, including the largest land - living predators in the history of life on Earth, such as Tyrannosaurus, and iconic agile hunters like Velociraptor.

However, the scales are large, too large for the typical size of carnivorous dinosaurs and hadrosaurs roaming this area 66 million years ago.

Perhaps the mammals were feeding on worms and grubs, the small carnivorous dinosaurs were after the mammals, and the pterosaurs could have been hunting both the mammals and the small dinosaurs.

It is notably slow for a carnivorous dinosaur that can run with more than 40 km / hour.

Especially England, Northern Germany and Spain host hundreds of footprints from carnivorous dinosaurs, aged 140 - 145 million years old — all from the same geological period as the footprints, examined by Pernille Venø Troelsen.

These carnivorous dinosaurs were agile hunters who walked and ran on two legs.

The remains contain an estimated 20 percent of the carnivorous dinosaur — which lived 145 - 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period — including an intact skull, vertebrae, ribs, hips and lower jaw bones.

Remains of several large carnivorous dinosaurs, including T. rex, were found in the area and likely preyed on the more sedentary dinosaurs, the researchers believe.