Sentences with phrase «larger than the dinosaur»

During the past 3.5 billion years, it is estimated that more than 80 bodies, larger than the dinosaur - killing asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, have bombarded Earth.

Not exact matches

Cultures all over the World recorded bears, lions, eagles, deer, buffalo, elephants and other mammals much smaller than dinosaurs, but totally ignored the dinosaurs, which were many times larger and more fearsome!!

The largest of the Yutyrannus skeletons — found in China's Liaoning province in rocks of an era famed for its feathered dinosaurs — represents an adult that in life would have measured about 9 meters long, or slightly shorter than a school bus.

Smaller dinosaurs were also more likely than large ones to develop insulating feathers, enabling them to hunt at night.

One is at least 10 percent bigger than Sue, the controversial South Dakota dinosaur that heretofore was the largest T. rex ever uncovered.

Small mammals and reptiles can be very diverse and abundant in modern ecosystems, but small dinosaurs (less than 100 kg) are considerably less common than large ones in the fossil record.

«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.»

Previous research has investigated the biomechanics of ground - dwelling birds to better understand the how bipedal non-avian dinosaurs moved, but it has not previously been possible to empirically predict the locomotive forces that extinct dinosaurs experienced, especially those species that were much larger than living birds.

The evolutionary line leading to birds kept experimenting with different, often radically smaller, body sizes — enabling new body «designs» and adaptations to arise more rapidly than among larger dinosaurs.

Dreadnoughtus is larger than all known sauropod dinosaurs, and its highly intact skeleton could bring unprecedented insights into dinosaur life

And they are the heaviest ever, weighing more than twice as much as the largest known dinosaur, the Argentinosaurus.

40 New Dinosaur King Rears Its Head Spinosaurus measured as much as a dozen feet longer than the largest known T. rex...

However, further research into that field is necessary to investigate if the pattern of brain development in individual dinosaurs is also reflected in a large scale trend during the more than 150 million years of dinosaur evolution.

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.

However, because dinosaurs lived across a larger geographical area than catarrhines and most of the initial studies took place in Europe and North America, the later addition of dinosaur fossils from Asia and South America has changed the shape of the dinosaur family tree more.

They were small — the largest was no bigger than a badger — and paleontologists used to think that mammal evolution only took off once a mass extinction wiped all the non-avian dinosaurs off the planet.

Tetrapod footprints and skeletal material from more than 70 localities in eastern North America indicate that large theropod dinosaurs appeared less than 10,000 years after the Triassic - Jurassic boundary and less than 30,000 years after the last Triassic taxa, in synch with a terrestrial mass extinction.

T. rex still retains its «King of the Dinosaur Predators» title, though, as it was larger than both of the Torvosaurus beasts.

The largest enemies I ran past were even more intimidating, taking an appearance of massive dinosaurs dozens of times larger than my character.

This book covers a range of exciting topics including: Sharks Lose Teeth All The Time Sharks Are Older Than The Dinosaurs The Whale Shark Is The Largest Fish In The World Sharks» Stomachs Are Incredibly Tough The Megalodon Shark Is The Largest Shark That Ever Existed Sharks Are Cartilaginous Fish Sharks Do Not Prefer To Eat People Sharks Rarely Get Cancer Some Sharks Can Live In Freshwater, Too Sharks Are More Likely To Attack In Shallow Water Shark Fins Are A Delicacy In Some Cultures Sharks Have To Stay Active To Survive Sharks Come In All Shapes And Sizes Sharks Can Hear Very Well A Shark's Sense Of Smell Is Impressive Sharks Can Sense Electrical Impulses, Too Some Sharks Are World Travelers Sharks Sleep While Moving Some Sharks Can Fly Many Sharks Are Endangered Species We loved compiling this book and even learned a few things along the way and hopefully you will too.

A careful look at the coaster also shows fun details along the route, including wooden building blocks and even a larger - than - life figure of the dinosaur Rex.

(«fleets of dinosaur - sized trucks and shovels larger than two - car garages are tearing apart a rich mosaic of woods and wetlands to extract some of the dirtiest fossil fuel on the planet... «Why should we destroy our environment for a thousand years for people who are on a binge?»»)