Sentences with phrase «from small dinosaurs»

Most scientists agree that birds evolved from small dinosaurs at least 150 million years ago, and the earliest known birds have wings and feathers that look much like those of modern birds.

Not exact matches

In some museum displays, he said, the birds - descended - from - dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact, with an asterisk pointing out in small type that «some scientists disagree.»

the chicken or the egg??? The egg developed when the chicken (aka - small dinosaur) evolved from giving live birth to laying eggs, after larger predators began dieing off.

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«Our games range from everything dealing with small equipment such as our parachute or balls to themed Little Gym games involving everything from dinosaurs to princesses,» Estoque says.

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We've known that T. rex and other giant tyrannosaurids, such as Tarbosaurus, evolved about 80 million years ago from much earlier, much smaller dinosaurs.

It seemed so obvious that if fairly small changes in development, which adjusted the timing and concentrations of growth and signaling factors, could have led to the evolution of birds from nonavian dinosaurs, we could readjust those changes in development and get a dinosaur from a chick embryo.

In May the discovery team from the Utah Geological Survey and the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah dubbed the dinosaur «a missing link between small - bodied predatory dinosaurs and the highly specialized and bizarre plant - eating therizinosaurs.»

A small Nottingham museum offers a big frisson for fossils fans, with a world - exclusive showing of key finds that proved birds evolved from dinosaurs

The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.

They served primarily to protect the smaller predatory dinosaurs — which would eventually give rise to birds — from losing too much body heat.

The meat - eating theropod dinosaurs shrank 12 times in a row, going from over 200 kilograms to less than a kilogram, until they were small enough to fly

The small fossils that line the walls of the Fighting Dinosaurs exhibit have helped him further establish an evolutionary lineage from Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor to the emu, the tit, and the vulture.

The first dinosaurs appeared around 230 million years ago, but for the next 30 million years, all but the very smallest were restricted to the world's high latitudes, far from the equator — even though the continents were connected, with no barriers to prevent large dinosaurs from moving around.

Mononychus had a primitive long tail for balance, and teeth and other features showing that it had descended from small bipedal theropod dinosaurs.

A small fossil from Devonian times, some 360 million years ago and long before dinosaurs arose, shows an oral disk with 14 evenly spaced teeth, already looking very capable of draining blood.

Dinosaurs evolved from dinosauromorphs — their smaller ancestors — in just a few million years and not the 10 million years or more scientists had suspected.

Anatomical and aerodynamic analyses of fossils and living birds show that birds evolved from small, predatory dinosaurs that lived on the ground

But paleontologists often focus on smaller fryespecially with regard to the origin of birds, which are believed to have evolved from petite, predatory dinosaurs.

Opponents of the bird - dinosaur connection also noted that no feathers were known from dromeosaursa group of small - to medium - size theropod dinosaurs that exhibit numerous traits in common with birds and are therefore widely held to be their closest relatives.

Dinosaur feathers provided key support for Ostrom's earlier proposal that birds had evolved from small, swift predatory dinosaurs.

1914: Proposes that the Nopcsa estates that yielded small - bodied dinosaurs had once been part of an island he called Hátszeg that formed from the flooding of Europe by the ancient Tethys Sea, and that the dinosaurs evolved their petite proportions as a response to the limited resources available on small islands

Those same sediments held another clue as well — the fossilized shells of plankton (small floating sea organisms) from the dinosaur days.

The tyrannosaurid dinosaurs likely evolved in isolation on the island continent, with incursions of the seaway separating small areas of land from each other.

Using a new technology, the researchers around the ornithologist from Frankfurt were able to describe previously unknown details of this small dinosaur's tail bristles.

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theropod A meat - eating dinosaur of a group whose members are typically bipedal (walk on two legs) and range from small and delicately built to very large.

«Everything has gotten smaller — we went from dinosaurs to microchips,» Jacqueline said.

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Playing as a hunter, appropriately, you take up a variety of quests, facing down everything from small creatures to dinosaurs and dragons.

Works ranged from giant slabs of carved granite and models of dinosaur skeletons to photographs, canvases and the smallest of sculptures, subtly and unexpectedly placed throughout.

The conventional explaination from non multidisciplinary scientists (those who never look beyond their own branch) is that the dinosaurs flew off cliffs, a ridiculous essertion since they would quickly die off when forced down at any non cliff, it would restrict them to such a small zone where they could fly and hence live that they would be non viable, it also does not explain the giant dragonflies.

It was just your regular kid's birthday — he was presented with an awesome dinosaur cake and graduated from feeding small freshwater crocodiles to feeding the big salt water ones.