Sentences with phrase «predatory dinosaur from»

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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.»

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

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.

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

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.

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