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.»
«Among other things, they reveal that Archaeopteryx was very similar to advanced
predatory dinosaurs in many respects,» says Rauhut.
Not exact matches
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.»
«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.»
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.
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.
«Today, predators are largely active
in dim light conditions,» says Schmitz, and his earlier work suggested that some
predatory dinosaurs were nocturnal.
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.
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.
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.