Sentences with phrase «sauropods with»

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Every day, new fossil finds are reported — the first insect, the oldest hominid, the first sauropod dinosaur, an Eocene whale with legs — and so it goes on.

And though their habitat was damaged by the Flood, the sauropods that made it onto the ark managed to live, and they show up in medieval tales of battles with dragons (Job 41:21 says of the Leviathan that «flames dart from his mouth»).

With the new tracks, however, Scotland's sauropods are beginning to come into focus.

Scientists at a meeting on sauropod dinosaur biology and gigantism pose with the cast of a 1.8 - metre - long thigh bone from an Apatosaurus (formerly known as Brontosaurus).

Phil Mannion, a sauropod expert at Imperial College London who was not involved with the study, praises the find.

At about 26 feet long, Pulanesaura was petite compared with later sauropods and had a relatively short neck, but one with greater flexibility than its bipedal ancestors.

This is a common problem with sauropods, because their comparatively small and fragile skulls usually come away from the massive skeleton after death.

Titanosaurs were sauropods, plant eaters with long necks and heavy tails attached to gigantic bodies.

This and future neck studies, he says, could be combined with other evidence for feeding habits to present an overall ecological picture of sauropods.

If they do sport similar treads, Fronimos says, as with the sauropods, it will help paleontologists make «more precise interpretations about how these animals lived and what kinds of stresses their bodies were subjected to.»

It was a splendid surprise to come face - to - face with a fossil vertebra from the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire that was clearly from a sauropod dinosaur

«The fossil probably belongs to a large herbivore sauropod, maybe a titanosaurus, since we discovered footprints from the same species very close to the rock with the skin fossil» Fondevilla says.

But R. McNeill Alexander of the University of Leeds, an expert on biomechanics, notes that Pedley's calculations clash with other evidence about the sauropods» feeding habits.

Together with similar tracks found recently in other parts of the world, the Skye trackways reveal that sauropods spent lots of time in coastal areas and shallow water.

But researchers working on James Ross Island off the Antarctic Peninsula have now reported the discovery of what may be the biggest dino yet: a fossil (inset) from the tailbone of a sauropod, a giant, four - legged dinosaur with a long neck and tail.