Sentences with word «coelurosaur»

The goal, in the end, would be to steer the embryo down the path it would have gone if it were something like a very early coelurosaur, a dinosaur grouping that counts tyrannosaurs and velociraptors among its members.

Another line of coelurosaurs adapted to arboreal living.

Those bigger coelurosaurs included the tyrannosaurs (starring, yes, the king of them all, T. rex).

«Coelurosaurs started out as the small critters running around the feet of the sauropods, fearing for their lives,» Persons says.

From left to right: the ancestral neotheropod (220 million years old), the ancestral tetanuran (200 myo), the ancestral coelurosaur (175 myo), the ancestral paravian (165 myo) and the ancestral avialan (150 myo).

I find this entire uproar strikingly similar to the long - running argument about dinosaur antecedants; particularly the Clemson view of dinosaurs as descended from the «cursorial crocs» as opposed to pretty much everyone else's view (now) that birds derive from coelurosaurs.

From left to right: a neotheropod, a tetanuran, a coelurosaur, a paravian and Archaeopteryx (Image: Davide Bonnadonna)

Left to right: the ancestral neotheropod (about 220 million years old), tetanuran, coelurosaur, paravian and Archaeopteryx (150 million years old).

Left to right: a neotheropod (from about 220 million years ago), a tetanuran, a coelurosaur, a paravian and finally Archaeopteryx (from 150 million years ago).