Sentences with phrase «much smaller dinosaurs»

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.

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!!

Gargantuan dinosaurs like brontosauruses, or gigantic mammals like Baluchitherium could easily have inhaled insects, and they would have to dodge ants, beetles, worms, frogs, snakes, and even much smaller mammals with each gargantuan step.

This small dinosaur was a close relative of Velociraptor, but in both body shape and inferred lifestyle it much closely recalls some waterbirds like modern swans.

The ancient surface where these footprints were found is also covered with the tracks of much smaller theropod dinosaurs.

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

With throats and jaws much wider than other pterosaurs, they could have swallowed small dinosaurs whole.

Most scientists agree that birds evolved from small dinosaurs at least 150 million years ago, and the earliest known birds have wings and feathers that look much like those of modern birds.

He said in part, «We will create smaller, more intelligent engines with so much power that they will turn V8s into dinosaurs.

But the smaller dinosaurs excite just as much interest.