Sentences with phrase «know about dinosaurs»

(E.g. what do we know about dinosaurs?)

Ask children what they already know about dinosaurs.

They might not have known about dinosaurs and microbes but they MUST HAVE MEANT that too!

These shared features, the authors say, suggest that it's time to rethink what we thought we knew about dinosaurs» earliest ancestors.

Almost nothing is known about the dinosaurs that lived in Africa at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago, just before they were wiped out by the impact of a giant asteroid.

Scientists have long known about dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia, but only now are the plants that supported those extinct animals coming into sharper focus.

Although not a practitioner himself of cladistic methods that were in the 1980s and 1990s transforming what we now know about dinosaur descent, he was sympathetic.

Not exact matches

People going with the flow in those days were no more inclined to see a threat for humans in the fate of the dinosaur than to worry about the population explosion.

Conservationist Norman Myers, author of The Sinking Ark: A New Look at the Problem of Disappearing Species (Pergamon, 1979), estimates that with the advent of technology between 1600 and 1900, an average of one species of bird or mammal (little is known about reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates and plants) disappeared every four years, compared to one every 1,000 years during the «great dying» of the dinosaurs.

You know, think about the size and complexity of the dinosaurs brain - their main concerns were to eat, drink, sleep, mate and run / hide from danger.

I can't prove God's existence just as much as scientist can't prove the big bang... there is evidence of both but to reach a conclusion takes faith... one side leaves hope and the other does not... maybe I'm agnostic too because I don't claim to know everything about why I'm here, I have to have faith... Honestly, I'm sick of the extremes on both sides... the conservative judgmental Christian, who never thought through things as to why the believe what they do (ie Dinosaurs, cavemen, evolution, etc.) and the intellectually arrogant atheist and humanists.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

This is often derided as prehistoric, which sits uncomfortably with Allardyce's known devotion to advances in conditioning, performance tracking, ProZone, and the relentless march of science into sport that makes actual dinosaurs start mumbling about how you can't build a footballer out of numbers and broccoli.

I don't really know anything about anime, but every time I watch Ace Sanders here (and I've watched this, like, 40 times, easy), I think about one of those anime scenes where the guy with the dinosaur hair has his arm explode and turn into an even bigger arm that's actually a nuclear bomb and there's all this FLASHING and SQUEALING going on and a factory turns into a robot that knows how to turn its arms into nuclear bombs and the backgrounds are all just PINK SPEED LINES and nothing makes any sense and everyone's SCREAMING.

No doubt like a lot of grandads the dinosaur bores the ares off the players about how things were so much harder back when he was young, how he walked miles uphill to and from school and that he could buy a new suit for a fiver.

Maybe I should write my * own * status update about my pregnancy / baby's first birthday / toddler's favorite dinosaur and let my friend remained focused on that other thing,» but no, they don't, and that's what makes them so entertaining.

When he turns 16, he'll be sleeping so much that I won't be able to wake him... until then, I've just had to DECIDE that I'm going to enjoy my wee - hours - of - the - morning discussions with him about dinosaurs and rocks... It's hard, but you know what?

My dd at 11 disdains the artificial, prefers clothing that actually covers her body, and knew more about dinosaurs at 5 than most college bio majors.

I know both of my kids really enjoyed learning about dinosaurs in school

If I had known about this with my son, I would have to add in the dinosaurs (he had onesies that would have matched these perfectly), the gingham, and the anchors.

But the true height of irresponsibility would be to ignore all that is known about the risks involved with keeping Indian Point open and let this nuclear dinosaur operate for another 20 years.

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.

Other dinosaurs of the same type, known as oviraptorosaurs, have seldom measured more than about two metres.

What would inevitably follow would be a discussion about the nature of dinosaurs, of birds, of evolution and development, of the relationship of molecular biology to big changes in evolution, of how we know what we know, and whether we were justified in doing what we did.

From its remains, we know a lot about this dinosaur: It was covered with spiny hair, it ate meat, and it walked on its hind legs.

«Not only do we know a great deal about bird development, but also about the dinosaur - bird transition, which is well - documented by the fossil record.

It will be a revelation to many how, not content with «dinosaurs», Hawkins, Owen and their colleagues planned just about every then - known fossil saurian and mammal big enough to be embodied in iron, concrete, rubber, brick and tile.

Vickers - Rich, well known for her research at Dinosaur Cove in western Victoria, tells me that the project has helped finance field trips to the central Urals by Australian scientists and has brought about 50 Russian scientists and technicians to Australia.

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).

«It's about fifty per cent larger than any other troodontids previously known, making it one of the largest deinonychosaurs (raptor like dinosaurs) we currently recognize.»

For as long as dinosaurs have been known to exist, there has been speculation about their appearance.

I'm as far away from anywhere as I've ever been, I know nothing about dinosaurs, and if they left me here, I would never find my way back, much less survive.

Here's what we know about the evolution of flight: By about 150 million years ago, the forests were filled with flying — or perhaps just gliding — dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx, possibly similar to the ancestor of modern birds.

The Velociraptor, made famous by the movie Jurassic Park, lived about 80 million years ago and belongs to a group of dinosaurs known as dromeosaurs.

«There's no longer any question that dinosaurs in the area survived the asteroid impact event, finally becoming extinct about a million years later,» he says.

Using the dimensions of its leg bones and a formula that projected weight - carrying capacity, they estimated that the massive herbivore tipped the scales at about 59 metric tons, making it the heftiest dinosaur known from a relatively complete specimen.

At 30 meters in length, an adult blue whale weighs about 180 metric tons — almost twice the heft of the largest dinosaur known — and consumes about 3.6 metric tons of food each day.

Like Microraptor, the new specimen had feathers on all four limbs; but its feathery tail, which takes up about 30 % of its total length, is the longest known among flying dinosaurs.

«Colobops would have been a diminutive but plucky little beast, part of a little - known menagerie of small animals that lived among the first dinosaurs,» said Bhart - Anjan Bhullar, assistant professor and assistant curator in geology and geophysics at Yale, and senior author of a new paper about the discovery in the journal Nature Communications.

A well - known example are dinosaurs: Many theories about animal gigantism offer high levels of atmospheric oxygen as an explanation.

Scientists now know more about the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that, while not a bird, appears to have been an expert flier that traversed the skies 125 million years ago.

I don't know about you but I think it's time we had some more dinosaurs.

«Finding Dory» (June 17): Though few specifics are known about the plot, a sequel to «Finding Nemo» is bound to pull in audiences, and Pixar is still the gold standard for animated films (yes, even despite «The Good Dinosaur»).

(No, it's not about dinosaurs.)

If you know a lot about dinosaurs, for example, and have learned to decode, you can read with understanding about dinosaurs with little difficulty.

The wide range of abilities and backgrounds creates obvious challenges: «the kids who know about therapods, and the kids who can't pronounce the word «dinosaur,»» said an Upper West science teacher.

In order to pretend to be that dinosaur as you write a letter to another dinosaur in class, you need to know as much as possible about it.

«But many of these charter providers — social entrepreneurs with a new generation of philanthropists supporting them — know very little about their communities and are dismissive of legacy institutions that they see as dinosaurs.

Even if there is evidence that dinosaurs existed, we don't know masses about them, and they have mythological qualities.

MACAULAY: A lot of my readers will already know how to say a seven - syllable dinosaur name, so I'm not worried about using words like combustion chamber.