Sentences with phrase «small predatory dinosaurs»

Alvarezsaurids were unusual small predatory dinosaurs that had very short but powerfuly built arms that ended in a single large digit.»

They served primarily to protect the smaller predatory dinosaurs — which would eventually give rise to birds — from losing too much body heat.

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.»

Chief among the criticisms were the animal's hindlimbs, significantly smaller compared with other large predatory dinosaurs, as well as other researchers» theoretical Spinosaurus models.

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.

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