Sentences with phrase «today than dinosaurs»
Insects are rather more important to us today than dinosaurs — they are now arguably the most successful group of animals ever to have existed.
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And even if that hurdle could be crossed, a viable dinosaur might not last long in 2006: «As far as we know, the way the lung tissue functioned, the way the hemoglobin functioned, was designed for an atmosphere that's very different than today's.»
But the team's measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in the creatures» teeth, a sensitive paleo - thermometer, suggest that the climate where these dinosaurs lived probably averaged about 10 ° Celsius over the course of a year — substantially colder than most of the dinosaur era, and in fact close to that seen in northeastern China today, Xu notes.
Today, thanks to an abundant fossil record and more than a century of collecting by paleontologists, Laramidia is the best known major landmass for the entire Age of Dinosaurs, with dig sites spanning from Alaska to Mexico.
Although theirs is perhaps the best - known mass extinction on Earth, by the author's account, the dinosaurs» reign was a massive success story — they thrived on the planet for more than 150 million years, and their descendants are the more than 10,000 species of birds that occupy almost every corner of the world today.
«The fiery world before dinosaurs: New research reveals fires were more common 300 million years ago than today.»
By following the tracks you can walk with these dinosaurs as they waded through a lagoon 170 million years ago, when Scotland was so much warmer than today.»
In their study, published today in the Springer scientific journal «The Science of Nature,» the team of scientists therefore postulates that the evolution of penguins started much earlier than previously thought, probably already during the age of dinosaurs.
One hundred million years ago, in the time of the dinosaurs, the earth was 5 - 15 C warmer than it is today, probably because the continents were arranged differently.
Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 250 million years ago had five times more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than we have today Read More
About 80 million years ago — a time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth — global sea levels were roughly 560 feet (170 meters) higher than they are today, according to a new study.
It is generally accepted that the Earth has been much warmer than today, for example, in the time of the dinosaurs (the mid-cretaceous period) when the CO2 was 2 to 4 times greater than today (NOAA).