Sentences with phrase «eating hadrosaur»

Mineralized skin samples suggest that the plant - eating hadrosaur may have been larger and faster than thought

A few years ago, Fassett's colleagues were digging in a fossil - rich area of New Mexico when they uncovered the four - foot - long fossilized thighbone of a duck - billed, plant - eating hadrosaur in a sandstone cliff.

So Schweitzer took a look at the pristine leg bone of a plant - eating hadrosaur that had been encased in sandstone for 80 million years.

The well - preserved fossil of a plant - eating hadrosaur, complete with skin and tendons, was discovered in 1999.

Not exact matches

Dr Albert Prieto - Marquez, Research Associate in the School of Earth Sciences who co-led the research, said: «Some of the immensely successful duck - billed hadrosaurs of the Late Cretaceous might have been eating flowering plants, but their tooth wear patterns, and especially close study of their coprolites — that's fossil poops — shows they were conifer specialists, designed to crush and digest the oily, tough needles and cones.»