Sentences with phrase «herbivorous dinosaurs»

Scientists have long wondered how this transition occurred, and whether herbivorous dinosaurs first developed the beaks used to graze on plants or the stomachs needed to digest them.

These duck - billed, herbivorous dinosaurs were probably the most abundant large animals in Alaska.

Numerous fossilized species were examined in the study — from the earliest amphibians to the largest herbivorous dinosaurs and mammoths.

Moabosaurus belongs to a group of herbivorous dinosaurs known as sauropods, which includes giants such as Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus, who had long necks and pillar - like legs.

The pale pink ladies» top - designed by Tee & Cake for the fashion giant - is emblazoned with the word «vegan» underneath an image of an herbivorous dinosaur.

The focus of the study was the skull of Erlikosaurus andrewsi, a 3 - 4m (10 - 13ft) large herbivorous dinosaur called a therizinosaur, which lived more than 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period in what is now Mongolia.

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«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.

That layer also contained numerous fossils of Maiasaura, a type of large, herbivorous duck - billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur (SN: 8/9/14, p. 20).

Based on the shape of their teeth and jaws, large plant - eating dinosaurs are generally thought to have been exclusively herbivorous.

The dinosaur, first described in 2015 as a bizarre, herbivorous theropod, is actually a primitive ornithischian, according to the study — a placement that would strengthen the authors» argument for rewriting the entire family tree.

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

The dinosaur family tree has three main branches: herbivorous ornithischians, long - necked sauropods and fierce theropods.

Other herd traces can be found in the Purgatoire River valley in Colorado, where trackways made by herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs are overlaid by delicate three - toed prints made by packs of meat eaters that were trailing the herd.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

The toothy dino belongs to a group of herbivorous, bipedal dinosaurs common in the Cretaceous Period.

Seeley divided dinosaurs into «bird - hipped» animals, like the herbivorous Stegosaurus, and «reptile - hipped» ones, including carnivores like T. rex and long - necked herbivores like Apatosaurus.