Sentences with phrase «carnivorous dinosaurs troodon»

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

The carnivorous dinosaurs, dilophosaurus, favored one particular spot to ambush prey drinking at the edge of the swamp.

There was an unnamed threat and at D23 Expo in 2013, some people thought the carnivorous dinosaurs would be the bad guys.

When threatened by the carnivorous dinosaurs, it would swing its club - like tail to protect itself.»

Birds are the direct descendants of a group of feathered, carnivorous dinosaurs that, along with true birds, are referred to as paravians — examples...

«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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

T - Rex was not even the largest carnivorous dinosaur we know of.

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.

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

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....

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

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.

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.

«This new species of carnivorous dinosaur is adding a little more (to the) diversity of dinosaurs of Portugal.

Not exact matches

«The carnivorous theropods were more closely related to the herbivorous ornithischians and, what's more, some animals, such as Diplodocus, would fall outside the traditional grouping that we called dinosaurs.

Carnivorous species died as their food sources did, but those dinosaurs with toothless beaks could feast on fallen seeds long after plants died.

Dr Lautenschlager said: «Theropod dinosaurs, such a Tyrannosaurus rex or Allosaurus, are often depicted with widely - opened jaws, presumably to emphasise their carnivorous nature.

It seems that [carnivorous] dinosaurs did the same.»

The fossils discussed in the paper are of dinosaurs of the species Ornithomimus edmontonicus, which means they looked something like modern ostriches, and are theropods — bipedal and carnivorous — as are most of the feathered dinosaurs already known to science.

Now, researchers reporting April 21 in Current Biology suggest that abrupt ecological changes following a meteor impact may have been more detrimental to carnivorous bird - like dinosaurs, and early modern birds with toothless beaks were able to survive on seeds when other food sources declined.

These theropod dinosaurs — bipedal and carnivorous — did exactly the same thing.»

Adaffa Theropod Tooth: This isolated tooth evidences the first identifiable carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Arabian Peninsula.

Scientists have built an unprecedented 3D picture of inside the skull of the Neovenator salerii, finding that the carnivorous land dinosaur may have possessed a surprisingly sensitive snout for use in foraging, feeding and even wooing potential mates.

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