Sentences with phrase «from hadrosaurs»

Earlier this week scientists studying fossilized teeth from a hadrosaur revealed how the duck - billed dinosaur chewed plants for food.

Scientists claim proteinaceous blood vessels from a hadrosaur that roamed proto - Montana 80 million years ago somehow survived

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Mary Schweitzer and her colleagues first remove minerals from fossils such as a hadrosaur femur, leaving organic material behind.

Hadrosaurs are usually identified by bony crests that extended from the skull, although Edmontosaurus doesn't have such a hard crest (paleontologists have discovered that it had a fleshy crest).

Rhinorex is the only complete hadrosaur fossil from the Neslen site, and it helps fill in some gaps about habitat segregation during the Late Cretaceous.

The presence of juveniles in the herd also strongly hints that these creatures spent their entire lives in the Arctic, the team says; hadrosaurs of that size wouldn't have had the size or stamina to migrate to and from warmer climates during wintertime, as some scientists have proposed.

It was embedded throughout with bone fragments, most likely from a young triceratops or hadrosaur.

Based on the shape and structure of the fossilized tendon discovered by the team, Erickson and Druckenmiller determined that it is from a large ornithopod dinosaur, probably a hadrosaur.