Sentences with phrase «many predatory dinosaurs»

AUSTRALIA»S long dinosaur drought is finally over with the discovery of two massive plant - eating titanosaurs and the continent's most complete predatory dinosaur.

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.»

Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim garnered fame — and controversy — when he found the largest predatory dinosaur ever known.

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.

The impact of massive trauma, they discovered, seemed to be shrugged off by many predatory dinosaurs — fossil bones often showed a multitude of grizzly healed injuries, most of which would prove fatal to humans if not medically treated.

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.

«Revealing the healing of «dino - sores»: Examining broken bones in 150 - million - year - old predatory dinosaur.»

Scientists have used state - of - the - art imaging techniques to examine the cracks, fractures and breaks in the bones of a 150 million - year - old predatory dinosaur.

Alvarezsaurids were unusual small predatory dinosaurs that had very short but powerfuly built arms that ended in a single large digit.»

He found 40 - year - old scientific papers suggesting that the velociraptor — a swift predatory dinosaur — used a similar body - stabilizing trick.

This bizarre subfamily appears to have evolved a lifestyle different from all other predatory dinosaurs,» says Philip Currie of the University of Alberta.

Velociraptor: A fine, feathered fiend Velociraptor, the predatory dinosaur immortalized in the Jurassic Park films, was more of an overgrown chicken than a reptilian beast.

Just like later birds, these predatory dinosaurs had feathers — long before Archaeopteryx lifted itself off the ground.

Thanks to these fossil finds, we now know that birds descend from a branch of medium - sized predatory dinosaurs, the so - called theropods.

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

«Among other things, they reveal that Archaeopteryx was very similar to advanced predatory dinosaurs in many respects,» says Rauhut.

«Today, predators are largely active in dim light conditions,» says Schmitz, and his earlier work suggested that some predatory dinosaurs were nocturnal.

We thought the threat of predatory dinosaurs forced early mammals to become nocturnal.

A century of digging found no teeth from giant predatory dinosaurs, a sign that pterosaurs were the biggest and baddest predators on the island.

Unlike typical Jurassic bone beds, it is dominated by the famous predatory dinosaur Allosaurus.

It is known to be the most primitive dromeosaur, a group of two - legged predatory dinosaurs closely related to birds.

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.

Although we are only starting to learn about them, the long - snouted tyrannosaurs were apparently one of the main groups of predatory dinosaurs in Asia.»

The petite 1.2 - metre - long Eoraptor followed a few years later; both were identified as very primitive two - legged predatory dinosaurs called theropods, a group which ultimately gave rise to Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds.

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.

And the 1996 discovery of the feathered dinosaur Sinosauropteryx thoroughly transformed our vision of the two - legged predatory dinosaurs, such as Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus rex, that eventually gave rise to birds.

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

Using similar techniques, another team of researchers studied how one type of large predatory dinosaur — Allosaurus — might have fed.

«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.

Members of Theropoda, the only clade of predominantly predatory dinosaurs, were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure that allowed them to easily tear through the flesh and bone of other dinosaurs, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Members of Theropoda, the only clade of predominantly predatory dinosaurs, were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure...

No mean feat when you're sharing your habitat with predatory dinosaurs!»

However, everything on this island is super sized and the body count burgeons as the men encounter predatory dinosaurs, gigantic cockroaches, enormous spiders and massive, mud - dwelling bloodsuckers that ingest one man right before his companions» eyes.

Not exact matches

Every child learns that dinosaurs fall into two major groups, the Ornithischia (bird - hipped dinosaurs; Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Iguanodon and their kin) and the Saurischia (lizard - hipped dinosaurs; the predatory theropods, such as Tyrannosaurus, and the long - necked sauropodomorphs, including such well - known forms as Diplodocus).

VANCOUVER — In a story worthy of CSI: Jurassic Period, researchers have solved the mystery of what killed a predatory allosaurus dinosaur 147 million years ago.

Most of the animals, from horned dinosaurs to swimming, predatory plesiosaurs, would be deeply alien, not to say terrifying.

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.

The dinosaur design also helps stimulate the curiosity of your pup and may even stimulate the inner predatory instinct inside.