Sentences with phrase «of predatory dinosaurs»

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.»

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

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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