Sentences with phrase «necked sauropod»

Researchers think that these were left by the long - necked sauropod, which stood at least 15 meters long, and the similarly sized older cousins of the Tyrannosaurus rex, the meat - eating theropods, which stood at least 2 meters tall.

They have also found that Eoraptor was not a predator at all, but a plant - eating sauropodomorph — a lineage that eventually evolved into the gigantic long - necked sauropod dinosaurs.

Last year, scientists described the near - complete fossil of a gigantic species of long - necked sauropod called Dreadnoughtus schrani.

The 100 million - year - old giant was a type of plant - eating, long - necked sauropod called a titanosaur, and is likely the largest creature known to have walked the planet.

Despite the demands of their enormous bodies, long - necked sauropods — those largest of dinos, including the iconic, if misnamed, brontosaurus — flourished for 140 million years.

Seventy million years ago, they all came to drink in the rapidly drying river: long - necked sauropods, fierce theropods, crocodiles, lizards, and raven - sized birds.

Long - necked sauropods grew to gigantic size, but we know little about how they got so big.

The dinosaur family tree has three main branches: herbivorous ornithischians, long - necked sauropods and fierce theropods.

Leslie found the first cases of wider seed cones in the Jurassic period, a time when very large vertebrate herbivores, such as the long - necked sauropods Diplodocus and Barapasaurus, roamed Earth.

For much of the Mesozoic, the dinosaur era, the long - necked sauropods were one of the dominant groups.

Not exact matches

About 170 million years ago, huge, long - necked dinosaurs called sauropods left hundreds of footprints on the floor of a shallow saltwater lagoon on a warm island in the midlatitudes.

Alamosaurus was a titanosaur sauropod, one of the groups of long - necked and long - tailed dinosaurs that included the largest animals to walk the Earth.

These are the first embryonic remains of sauropods, and they settle the controversy over whether the ponderous, long - necked, long - tailed dinosaurs produced live births.

In 1883, Brontosaurus excelsus — the first long - necked, whip - tailed sauropod to be reconstructed from a fossilized partial skeleton — captured the public's imagination.

Their analysis also suggests that Buriolestes is one of the oldest known Sauropodomorpha, the group of long - necked dinosaurs that includes sauropods.

Apatosaurus (also called Brontosaurus), one of the long - necked plant eaters known as sauropods, needed only 15 years to reach 25 tons.

He helped excavate what's thought to be the largest titanosaur — the last long - necked, plant - eating sauropod dinosaur group — discovered in southern Patagonia.

The other dinosaur tracks include: a sauropod, or long - necked plant - eater; small theropods, crow - sized carnivorous dinosaurs closely related to the Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus rex; and pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles that included pterodactyls.

WHILE giraffes gracefully browse the treetops, their long - necked predecessors, the sauropod dinosaurs, would never have done so.