«Our results add a new level of detail to our understanding of the way
large predatory dinosaurs interacted with the world around them,» says Elis Newham, a University of Southampton PhD researcher and study co-author.
Chief among the criticisms were the animal's hindlimbs, significantly smaller compared with other
large predatory dinosaurs, as well as other researchers» theoretical Spinosaurus models.
Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim garnered fame — and controversy — when he found
the largest predatory dinosaur ever known.
Using similar techniques, another team of researchers studied how one type of
large predatory dinosaur — Allosaurus — might have fed.
Not exact matches
Nicholas Longrich of Yale University was examining T. rex bones when he found that four bore
large tooth marks that could only have been made by another big
predatory dinosaur.
Alvarezsaurids were unusual small
predatory dinosaurs that had very short but powerfuly built arms that ended in a single
large digit.»
Longrich says cannibalism was probably common in
predatory dinosaurs, just as modern
large carnivores, including bears, komodo dragons and some big cats, often turn cannibal.
Nicholas Longrich of Yale University was examining T. Rex bones for signs that mammals had gnawed on them when he found that four bones bore
large tooth marks that could only have been made by another big
predatory dinosaur.
A new species of a fossil pliosaur (
large predatory marine reptile from the «age of
dinosaur») has been found in Russia and profoundly change how we understand the evolution of the group, says an international team of scientists.