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Sentence Examples His artsy-craftsy zoo has a wide range of snakes, alligators, canines, dinosaurs, kangaroos, horses, dolphins, apes, chimpanzees et al. At the foot of the mountain, colourful fossils of shells and dinosaurs add a mysterious flavour to the place. You've got flesh-eating, man-eating dinosaurs basically interacting with children. In early illustrations, dinosaurs were often portrayed as lumbering, upright, tail-dragging behemoths. Argentinean scientists have discovered gigantic neck, back, and tail bones from one of the largest dinosaurs ever to roam the Earth. It explains and questions such disparate subjects as Congolese dinosaurs, Kabbalah and macrobiotics. It's 16 million years after dinosaurs roamed the earth, and warm-blooded creatures are wandering round the tropical jungle eating bugs. Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, but represent a separate group of marine vertebrates. The catastrophe of the Late Devonian was roughly equivalent in magnitude to the event at the end of the Cretaceous that killed the dinosaurs. Theropoda is the second saurischian group, consisting of the carnivorous dinosaurs. The saurischian dinosaurs include both carnivores, the theropods, and herbivores, the sauropods. The oldest known dinosaurs, from the middle Triassic of South America, were saurischians. This new fossil suggests that these dinosaurs may not have had scaly, reptile-like skin, but perhaps had a softer, downy coat. I know the world and his wife loves them, but I'm thoroughly sick of dinosaurs. The county is to build a park where the scene of 180 million years ago, when dinosaurs lived freely, will be recreated. Thus when people say that dinosaurs are extinct, they are technically not correct. Although mammoths came much later than dinosaurs, I spotted a giant pair of ancient curved ivory tusks protruding from an isolated cliff. If it is alive then it probably is not a dinosaur, since dinosaurs are extinct. The ornithodires went on to produce pterosaurs and dinosaurs, including the birds. We are so used to the enormous size of dinosaurs that we almost forget to think about how they grew to be so large. Show More Sentences The dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era in a sense presaged the birds and mammals of the Cenozoic era. The ornithopod dinosaurs that left these tracks may have been quadrupedal, walking on all fours. The obvious conclusion is that the layer of debris ejected by the impact draws the line of extinction for the dinosaurs. He has a great interest in collecting things, like any young boy of eight, and has a collection of model dinosaurs. That makes the famous mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago seem like a minor die-off. Sixty-five million years ago, a collision with an asteroid is believed to have caused a global die-off that included all dinosaurs. So dinosaurs died from allergic reactions to these new, poisonous intruders. This looks like the last roll of the dice from the political dinosaurs and they just rolled a two. When we do this we can use dinosaurs, fossils and DNA as tools to share the gospel of Christ. Some of the fossils are proving pivotal in testing the hypothesis that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs. They disappeared along with the dinosaurs when that period ended, leaving no modern descendants. A pterosaur is a flying reptile from the Mesozoic period, the time of the dinosaurs. Based on widely accepted criteria, pterodactyls and other pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. Birds, close cousins of pterodactyls, are believed to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs about 150 million years ago. Features one would expect to see in herbivorous dinosaurs that provide some evidence of diet include dentition. It's not certain why dinosaurs grew to such large sizes, but there are clues to the process of gigantism and its possible advantages. And the Isle of Wight is very close and full of dinosaurs, which is great for geomancy. This particular patch of green is the oldest jungle on the planet, pre-dating the extinction of the dinosaurs by 35 million years. Instead of being associated with earthbound reptiles, dinosaurs are being linked with ethereal birds. I am 100 percent certain man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. Show More Sentences He has a growing collection of plastic dinosaurs and he can pretty much name each one. Such analyses have shown that some features considered to be typically avian, such as the furcula, first appeared in carnivorous dinosaurs. By all three criteria, the skeleton of Caudipteryx falls into the domain of flightless birds rather than the space of cursorial dinosaurs. Theropod dinosaurs are seen to exhibit too many terrestrial and cursorial adaptations to be avian precursors. It probably lived in a shallow lake populated by dinosaurs, crocodiles, turtles, and numerous types of fish. There is the added question of how the dinosaurs are to be fossilised in a desert. Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes. The tracks, which have been placed in the form genus Caririchnium, were made by ornithopod dinosaurs, large herbivores. This is the first time the footmarks of these two kinds of dinosaurs have been found in the same spot. Furthermore, it cannot migrate or hibernate during winter, as is thought possible for some polar dinosaurs and turtles. The new discovery of polar dinosaurs is a problem for the meteorite theory, but can be explained within the Flood paradigm. It's likely that there are wide metabolic variations among dinosaurs, and polar dinosaurs can begin to shed some light on the issue. Since the initial discovery, the study of polar dinosaurs has slowly gained momentum. The discovery of the polar dinosaurs clearly suggests that they survived the volcanic winter that apparently killed other dinosaur species. Included among these vertebrates are sharks, bony fishes, amphibians, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, and dinosaurs. When the dinosaurs ruled the world, the mammals hid in the shadows, daring to grow no bigger than shrew-like insectivores that hunted at night. Is it your sense that these feathered dinosaurs are more closely related, to say the crane or the Dodo bird? Other reptiles, amphibians, etc., survived, so the demise of the dinosaurs could not have been due to their reptilian cold-bloodedness. Among the animals, cold-blooded forms like dinosaurs would have been affected more than the warm-blooded mammals. The first birds shared several major skeletal characteristics with many coelurosaurian dinosaurs. Show More Sentences When birds became small, having evolved from larger coelurosaurian dinosaurs, how did they change their growth strategy? Some archosaurs, such as birds and coelurosaurian dinosaurs also developed large brains, indicating a higher level of intelligence. He proposed that ratites and small coelurosaurian dinosaurs shared a common ancestor, and that the ancestors of ratites never acquired flight. Also predictably, the armed troop who accompanies Macy and co. have terribly underestimated what the dinosaurs on the island can do. An interesting example of convergent evolution is seen between these pelycosaurs and the unrelated dinosaurs. More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. Other bones of plant-eating dinosaurs, such as hypsilophodontids, were uncovered from the same region of peninsular Antarctica. This clear-cut distinction was upset in the 1960s and 70s by the discovery of unusual medium-sized theropod dinosaurs such as Deinonychus. Section two deals with systematics, how dinosaurs are grouped into larger categories, and how those groups are related to each other. I have elm trees, oak trees, dogwood trees, sweet gum and a huge sugar magnolia, one of the few trees that has survived the age of the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs reigned supreme for 135 million years, until another comet colliding with Earth took them out. Some of the most well-preserved specimens of dinosaurs ever found are oviraptors. The find shows that a group of dinosaurs called oviraptors roamed much farther south than previously thought, they add. The paired eggs suggest that these dinosaurs retained two functioning ovaries and oviducts, each producing a single egg at a time. Also, dinosaurs have exactly the wrong anatomy for developing flight, with their large tails and hindlimbs and short forelimbs. They outlasted the dinosaurs and are the single longest lived branch of mammaliforms. As with mammals, herbivorous dinosaurs of different body size probably selected different diets. The previously discussed benefits of large size to a mammalian herbivore probably also accrued to large herbivorous dinosaurs. Ornithomimosaurs were a group of toothless meat-eating theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Cretaceous period. The evidence of nesting and parental care in ornithischian, sauropod, and theropod dinosaurs is extensive. Show More Sentences The University of California Museum of Paleontology is proud to present displays of ornithischian dinosaurs. The cataclysmic event may have caused widespread extinction of the dinosaurs and three-fourths of Earth's living organisms. Thus, the ultimate question of a gradual decline of dinosaurs vs. a sudden cataclysm is almost intractable without a wealth of good data. Birds evolved from reptiles, probably small carnivorous dinosaurs, around 150 million years ago. Some carnivorous dinosaurs routinely fed on their own species, according to an analysis of scarred fossils. Several bones of carnivorous dinosaurs with tooth marks on them from other meat-eating dinosaurs have been found in Alberta, Canada. Just because the tops of many eggs were broken, does not necessarily mean the dinosaurs hatched. The Prime Minister who yesterday lectured us on the growth of bad manners dished it out to the old-time union chiefs and Old Labour dinosaurs. Other herbivorous dinosaurs of the Jurassic included the plated stegosaurs. Other dinosaurs lacked them, and the forms of plates and spikes vary among stegosaurs without respect to body size. Paleontologists contend the ancient gnaw marks are among the strongest evidence yet that some dinosaurs indeed were cannibals. Samples were taken from hadrosaurs, dinosaurs with exclusively terrestrial life habitats, so that all animals lived in contact with fresh waters. The Ornithopoda included the hadrosaurs, the iguanodontids, the heterodontosaurs, the hypsilophodontids, and various other dinosaurs. There is a parallel here with the hadrosaur and ceratopsian dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous. Fragments of other dinosaurs have been found over the past years near Naples and near Trieste, in north-east Italy. A distant relative of today's spiny anteater, the species lived about 106 million years ago alongside dinosaurs in what is now Australia. By now, the space shuttles can be considered the dinosaurs of the space age, as obsolete as a 386 computer. Finally the age of the dinosaurs is thought to have been ushered in and out by space objects striking the earth. Yet there are dinosaurs who take a dim view of such a plan, their highly specious argument revolving around the nebulous concept of loyalty. The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive. Show More Sentences Blown-up dinosaurs hang from the ceiling and sit watching from book shelves. Japanese umbrella pine is a living relic predating the age of the dinosaurs. In the Mesozoic top predators included the biggest theropod dinosaurs on land, and pliosaurs and mosasaurs in the seas. Contemporaries of the last dinosaurs, paddle-limbed mosasaurs, inhabited seas of the Cretaceous period, which ended about 66 million years ago. Because feathers are a unique feature, they are thought to be characteristic of many theropod dinosaurs, including tyrannosaurs. Theropods are the line of mainly carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs from which birds evolved. Tyrannosaurs grew out of a group of lightweight, carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs that also gave rise to birds. The triceratops, like all dinosaurs, only had a small brain but he made up for it with his big heart. Triassic footprints were primarily made by early crocodilians and small dinosaurs. Interest in snakes has recently exploded to such an extent that books on them are appearing almost as fast as those on dinosaurs. Massive carnivorous dinosaurs known as spinosaurs had snouts and jaws similar to modern fish-eating crocodiles. In them are the bones of hundreds of dinosaurs, including skeletons of giant brontosaurs which were mired in soft mud. However, these rocks do record the earliest presence of dinosaurs in the form of numerous trackways in southwestern Gondwana. Whatever brought about the massacre of the dinosaurs additionally lead to the death of almost 70 per cent of all the species on the Earth. Thus, the entire industry is one big sham, endlessly killing dinosaurs and wasting coal at an exorbitant rate. Furthermore, it is likely that most herbivorous dinosaurs employed a mutualistic gut microbiota. These creatures were direct descendants of the great dinosaurs of the long past Mesozoic Aeon. These were active, fast-moving animals, with fully erect and upright posture, just like dinosaurs and mammals. Sometimes the BBC's whizzy technology is enough to make the, ahem, older among us feel a little like dinosaurs ourselves. This includes the horned dinosaurs, duckbills, stegosaurs and armored dinosaurs. Show More Sentences The most recent major extinction occurred 65 million years ago when a meteorite crashed into Earth, leading to the demise of the dinosaurs. Recreational vehicle, also known as Winnebagos, are those homes on wheels that gather like dinosaurs in the car parks of Florida. Smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, however, may have fed to a greater extent than their larger kin on plants defended by qualitative toxins. Toward the end of the reign of dinosaurs, some animals, the future mammals and birds, evolved endothermy. After the students have modeled both kinds of dinosaurs with their hands, have them locate both kinds of dinosaurs on the classification chart. We know very little about the outer covering of the various types of dinosaurs. Applied to what is known about dinosaurs, it shows that large dinosaurs were probably not fleet of foot. Its teeth lacked the usual serrations along the edges found in other two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs. A set of prehistoric footprints, said to show meat-eating dinosaurs hunting vegetarian dinos, has just been recreated in a detailed 3-D model. The studio has taken the dinosaurs to the next level and made them as real as you can get. Under no circumstances make spaceships, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters or fantasy art characters. Ostriches and emus are primitive birds that have more in common with dinosaurs than more advanced birds like robins, Schweitzer said. Much fossil evidence has been uncovered supporting the idea that birds evolved from a group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods. He is like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, leading a herd of corporate dinosaurs over the cliff and bellowing as he goes. Russell reminds readers that we do not know the biogeographic origin of birds, or theropods, or dinosaurs. Dromaeosaurs, a group of small, fleet-footed dinosaurs in the theropod family, are thought to be the closest known relatives of birds. Mammals, crocodilians and dinosaurs independently evolved acute, pitch-sensitive hearing by elongating the lagena. Birds arose from theropod dinosaurs at some point in the Jurassic, according to present knowledge. Kong saves her many times from the carnivorous dinosaurs and she repays him with her trust. Dr. Alan Grant swore that he'd never set foot near the islands housing the dinosaurs from the original Jurassic Park. Show More Sentences At the time, paleontologists were stuck in a reptilian perspective on dinosaurs. You have to admit that there's something fascinating about dinosaurs, those lumbering reptilian giants of a bygone age. Both Effigia and the ostrich dinosaurs would have evolved from a common ancestor that lived long before, the study says. There are two main types, the dome heads and the horned dinosaurs, which evolved from a common ancestor during the early Cretaceous. And we asked whether the broadcast network news anchors are, well, dinosaurs. In the analysis, dinosaurs were assumed to thermoregulate behaviourally by moving between sun and shade. There are only so many computer-generated dinosaurs I can watch until I want to start doing tequila shooters. As volcanic activity slowed and oxygen output of plants declined, small-lunged dinosaurs had trouble adjusting. There were many kinds of ornithischian dinosaurs, dating back to the early Jurassic. Using state-of-the-art technology in animatronics and engineering, these life-size dinosaurs are able to move, roar and blink their eyes. The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation. These great birds were the last successors of the mighty theropod dinosaurs of the Mesozoic. His work provided strong, compelling support for the theory that birds are theropod dinosaurs. In other words, the movie implies that primates, like lemurs trace an evolutionary ancestry that goes back to the dinosaurs. The layer was generally at the place in the fossil record where the dinosaurs disappeared. And of course there is the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a mega-tsunami caused by an asteroid. While it was believed that dinosaurs and pterosaurs derived from the thecodonts, no one had a good idea of where the divergence had occurred. Ninjas, mind-controlled slaves, a plasmatic monster, robot dinosaurs, inner demons, and bandersnatches are running amok. The annihilation of the dinosaurs marks the boundary linking Cretaceous time and Tertiary time. Witmer was able to map the likely position of cartilage, blood vessels and other soft tissues that made up the nasal cavities of dinosaurs. Show More Sentences Right now, these vertically integrated dinosaurs make everything from hard-disk drives to submarine cables. So the appearance of the dinosaurs cannot be a direct result of all these extinctions. Other archosaurs included the pterosaurs, relatives of dinosaurs but not true dinosaurs. Nearby spread the prehistoric-looking tentacles of Welwitschia plants that date from the age of the dinosaurs. The sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs has baffled scientists for many years. Thyreophora includes the various armored dinosaurs, like Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus. Diplodocuses were the biggest dinosaurs but not the heaviest. Plant eating dinosaurs generally have toes that are more spatulate. Should we now imagine dinosaurs as thermally insulated warm-blooded animals that ploughed through snowdrifts and scraped the ice off the ground to find food? Rebecca, did the dinosaurs come afore man, or at the same time? Jim Black, the kenspeckle freelance sportswriter addressed this issue in the columns of The Herald and concluded that they were reactionary dinosaurs. So the mingling dinosaurs spread diseases and wiped each other out. She can reorganize her own molecules, make computers with her brain, talk to dinosaurs. As a paleontologist, he obviously understands the public fascination with dinosaurs and their remains. Unfortunately, dinosaurs almost never get trapped in tree amber. Those who associate him only with animating dinosaurs and skeleton creatures would have been fascinated to see what made up the bulk of the program last night. In the main collecting area, recovered and uncollected articulated skeletons of thero-pod, ankylosaurian and protoceratopsian dinosaurs represent over 100 individuals. A family of heavily armored ankylosaurian dinosaurs, the nodosaurids, is represented by partial skeletons of a ten-foot-long creature known as Silvisaurus. Now, in the greatest age of science ever, Americans are debating whether Adam and eve rode dinosaurs. Had dinosaurs not been annihilated by an asteroidal impact, mammals might still be small, nocturnal insect-eaters unable to evolve higher intelligence. Show More Sentences It's been known for some time that birds are descended from dinosaurs, with Archaeopteryx representing one strong link between avians and antiquity. Fossils from this site include both early ornithischians, such as Pisanosaurus, and putative early saurischians, the two major lineages of dinosaurs. During the most recent mass extinction, 65 million years ago, 17 per cent of all the taxonomic families of life were lost, including the dinosaurs. In the Flood model, the observation of shark remains among dinosaurs would not be considered unusual, since one would expect that sharks would scavenge floating dinosaurs. The Triassic thecodonts had given rise to the dinosaurs and pterosaurs in the late Triassic, and these now gave rise to an extraordinary range of adaptations to new habitats. It has been suggested that herbivorous dinosaurs swallowed large stones that collected in a birdlike gizzard grinding the poorly masticated herbage. Accumulating evidence suggests that living birds are the direct descendants of theropods, a group of meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs. Although great size, as well as a great range of body sizes, are among the most familiar qualities of dinosaurs, the early theropods were both small and fairly uniform. The dinosaurs could not see their nemesis coming, but we can. I don't know how I'm going to get paid, but I'd rather go out into the brave new world than live with dinosaurs that are far too big for their boots. Museums of natural history display the biggest meteorites, tallest dinosaurs, and millipedes with the most legs. It is clear that endothermy need not be evoked in order to explain apparently stable temperatures in medium-sized dinosaurs living at midlatitudes. And this is true of virtually all companies, just as it was true of dinosaurs and mammals. Several different groups of bird-like dinosaurs had evolved. Even on a tropical island, dinosaurs would sicken and die eventually. Most predatory dinosaurs such as tyrannosaurs and velociraptors have usually been depicted in museums, films and books as covered in a thick hide of dull brown or green skin. It has even been speculated that if a bolide had not seen out the dinosaurs, then they would have eventually evolved into a human-grade intelligent species. New techniques of analysis are continually uncovering previously unrecognized details about the internal anatomy and growth patterns of dinosaurs. It thought it was so much better than its parents, those class-bound dinosaurs whose bourgeois values it thought it was systematically eliminating. They learn the names of all the cars, or the dinosaurs, or all the powers of every pokemon. Show More Sentences Some researchers have suggested that Archaeopteryx could in fact be the ancestor of a group of dinosaurs that includes velociraptors, made famous by Jurassic Park. We skirt around men dragging boxes of green plastic dinosaurs across the floor, bales of bubble wrap, a jumble of king-sized golden picture frames. However, comparison of the specimens with dinosaur skin shows that a similar integumentary morphology has previously been documented in hadrosaurian dinosaurs. Analysis of bones scored by tooth marks suggests Majungatholus was a cannibal that regularly dined on members of its own species and other dinosaurs. The idea paved the way for the widespread acceptance of Alvarez's theory about the demise of the dinosaurs and heralded a return to the ideas of catastrophism. Ornithomimids were a distinctive group of theropod dinosaurs who show a good example of convergent evolution with the ratite birds, such as ostriches. All the fascinating stories about the bones of dinosaurs, chalicotheres, dinotheres, mastodons, giant giraffes, and mammoths are gathered in my book. When we were kids, dinosaurs were ho-hum, like a lot of very old things, but in the last 10 or 20 years there has been a real upsurge in interest. More recently, paleontologists have suggested that other dinosaurs, notably the dome-headed pachycephalosaurs, also used their cranial appendages defensively. Predatory dinosaurs of the Jurassic included fearsome carnosaurs such as Allosaurus, small, fast coelurosaurs, and ceratosaurs such as Dilophosaurus. Most skin impressions from dinosaurs indicate the presence of naked skin, except for integumentary structures in coelurosaurs that may have afforded thermal insulation. The latter show was held outside, opposite the Natural History Museum much to the delight of fashionistas and hundreds of children queueing up to see the dinosaurs. After a period of time in which the dinosaurs could comfortably have spawned, lived, and been eliminated by space aliens, the door opened, and I gained ingress. The plesiosaur and sauropod dinosaurs had 30 to 50 neck bones! But the researchers who study coprolites, as fossil feces are known, say these dietary waste products can tell us much about dinosaurs and other ancient animals. The protesters counter with dinosaurs singing songs and a hoe-down. If the birds' crests are shown to play a role in communication, then investigators may have a clue as to how ancient casque-bearing dinosaurs interacted. Be it a flick about a killer Python, or Boa, or a Boa vs. Python, or a Frankenfish, or giant Komodo dragons, sharks, and dinosaurs, the resulting creature is always a joke. Their ornamented dome may have served as a communication system that was primarily visual within species, analogous to the crests, horns, and frills of ceratopsid dinosaurs. In real life, Boga resembles a wide variety of reptiles including iguanas, geckos, Komodo Dragons, regal horned lizards, frilled lizards, and even prehistoric dinosaurs. Show More Sentences The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs. The Yixian dinosaurs were cursorial, bipedal, and not capable of flight. But clavicles are now known from a variety of nonavian dinosaurs, and a fused furcula is present in several nonavian theropods, including allosauroids and tyrannosaurids. It attempts to characterize the predatory behavior of three genera of large predaceous dinosaurs from the distribution of their shed teeth at Como Bluff, Wyoming. Endothermy did evolve from ectothermy, and birds did evolve from dinosaurs, which we know came from ectothermic ancestors sometime in the distant past. Their research on carbonate-rich sediments in which the dinosaurs were buried suggests the area was near or in a spring, and that there were at least two mass die-offs. Ichthyosaurs gradually disappear from the fossil record of about 90 million years ago, a full 25 million years before mass die-offs wiped out the dinosaurs. The size of dinosaurs, whales, and elephants should serve as an example. This bone structure similarity shows that dinosaurs were endothermic. Different lines of evidence indicate that endothermy as it is known from modern birds and mammals may not have been feasible for most, particularly larger, dinosaurs. In an alternate reality in which the dinosaurs didn't become extinct, we catch up with a family of Apatosauruses who make a living farming corn. In an alternate reality in which the dinosaurs didn't become extinct, we meet a family of Apatosauruses who make a living farming corn. Statements that birds are dinosaurs are as silly as claiming that mammals are synapsid reptiles, or that all amniotes are amphibians. Allosaurs, sometimes confused with the Tyrannosaurus rex, were large theropod dinosaurs. These losses left behind a land fauna of crocodylomorphs, dinosaurs, mammals, pterosaurians, and turtles. A similar situation may also have been found amongst dinosaurs that lived in Antarctic regions, such as the Muttaburrasaurus of Australia. Their main competitors were the pseudosuchia, such as aetosaurs, ornithosuchids and rauisuchians, which were more successful than the dinosaurs. Cormorants seem to be a very ancient group, with similar ancestors reaching back to the time of the dinosaurs. The Crystal Palace dinosaurs proved so popular that a strong market in smaller replicas soon developed. Using one of the above definitions, dinosaurs can be generally described as archosaurs with hind limbs held erect beneath the body. Show More Sentences Birds are thus considered to be dinosaurs and dinosaurs are, therefore, not extinct. With their immediate ancestors, dinosaurs were the only terrestrial nonplantigrades during the Mesozoic. They were the main food of herbivorous dinosaurs, and their resins and poisons would have given protection against herbivores. In traditional taxonomy, birds were considered a separate class that had evolved from dinosaurs, a distinct superorder. Birds are now recognized as being the sole surviving lineage of theropod dinosaurs. While dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal, many extinct groups included quadrupedal species, and some were able to shift between these stances. Evidence suggests that egg laying and nest building are additional traits shared by all dinosaurs. The fossil record indicates that birds are modern feathered dinosaurs, having evolved from theropod ancestors during the Jurassic Period. Washboards went the way of the dinosaurs when washing machines became commonplace. Actually, dinosaurs are an atheist plot to get kids to believe in evilution. This event vacated terrestrial ecological niches, allowing the dinosaurs to assume the dominant roles in the Jurassic period. He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book. Since most of what remains of dinosaurs is bones and footprints, a paleoillustrator must have a head for paleontology and anatomy as well. Chilesaurus is the first herbivorous theropod, a lineage that includes mainly predatory dinosaurs, from the southern hemisphere. They showed that the branch of theropod dinosaurs, which gave rise to modern birds, were the only dinosaurs that kept getting inexorably smaller. It belonged to the group of dinosaurs called theropods, which slowly transitioned into birds. The Cretaceous ended 65 million years ago, the time of the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and most birds. The discovery confirms the widespread success of sauropodomorph dinosaurs during the Early Jurassic Period. The Beeb's unique wildlife series brings to life again the sauropod dinosaurs, huge long-necked herbivores weighing between 20 and 70 tonnes. Superb predators, the crocodilians are reptiles, and the only survivors of the archosaurs that included dinosaurs. Show More Sentences Fossilised dinosaur droppings found in central India show sauropod dinosaurs may have ingested grass between 65 million and 71 million years ago. I was inspired to write by Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton, because it was titanically original and had dinosaurs eating people. The diminutive dinosaurs included the titanosaurian sauropod Magyarosaurus, which had a body length of about 16 to 19 feet. Unchanged for 200million years, a living fossil which would have been around when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. However, their initial growth rate is much lower than in mammals, birds and dinosaurs. Illuminated at night, the whimsical dinosaurs flank the Central Park West staircase and echo the Barosaurus mount in the Roosevelt Rotunda. However, others have been assigned in the past, and there is no broad consensus on the species taxonomy of plateosaurid dinosaurs. I have just told my child that dinosaurs no longer live on earth. The right people are on their side, the bigots are the dinosaurs. The political dinosaurs of earlier periods had died or been exiled, and the growing aristocratization of government clearly suited him. Only one nautiloid group survived the massive extinctions that also destroyed the dinosaurs. Leaf-shaped teeth are found in dinosaurs like stegosaurs and ankylosaurs that eat plants. The coauthors of the new paper read much like a Who's Who of the opposing camp, which seeks bird ancestors more ancient than the dinosaurs. A vast river network there had once nourished coelacanths, sharks, crocodile-like predators and dinosaurs. It is almost as impressive as the coin-op with seven dinosaurs battling it out. The species was probably wiped out in the mass-extinction astroid collision that was also responsible for killing off the dinosaurs. The apex predators were archosaurian reptiles, especially dinosaurs, which were at their most diverse stage. That's at least three times bigger than the famous Comet Halley, and twice the size of the comet or asteroid suspected of killing the dinosaurs. The serrated teeth of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs, and biting structures in other animals. Spinosaurs were large, meat-eating dinosaurs whose fossilized remains are often found in the same areas as the bones of tyrannosaurs. Show More Sentences This week it was revealed that a ferocious amphibian terrorised its sea-dwelling compadres during the age of the dinosaurs. Paleoclimatology research published in Current Biology suggests that flatulence from dinosaurs may have warmed the Earth. Large, generally flightless birds called ratites, which include emus, ostriches and rheas, are closely related to dinosaurs. Stegosaurus is one of the most recognizable genera of dinosaurs and lived during the mid to late Jurassic. Tackling the wekas was easy for Hoskins in comparison to the strenuous physicality of battling with dinosaurs. During the Late Jurassic, the first avialans, like Archaeopteryx, evolved from small coelurosaurian dinosaurs. Romilio said the swimming dinosaur tracks at Lark Quarry belonged to small, two-legged herbivorous dinosaurs known as ornithopods. All these belong to the 'lizard hipped' or saurischian branch of the dinosaurs. The smaller Ornithischian herbivore dinosaurs, like stegosaurs and small ornithopods were less predominant, but played important roles. Grab a glimpse of the science behind Doctor Who, go back in time to see the dinosaurs and sign up for the chance to design your own water rocket. We are synapsid tetrapods, a group of reptiles that almost went extinct 200 million years ago in competition with the better-designed dinosaurs. The first mammals were small, nocturnal, rodentlike creatures that skittered around the feet of dinosaurs for 140 million years. The presence of three or more sacral vertebrae, in association with the hip bones, is one of the defining characteristics of dinosaurs. In many hadrosaur and theropod dinosaurs, the caudal vertebrae were reinforced by ossified tendons. The geographic area that would later become the United States has been the source of more varieties of dinosaurs than any other modern country. As the Jurassic proceeded, larger and more iconic groups of dinosaurs like sauropods and ornithopods proliferated in Africa. The fossilised footprint was left by a lizard called dicynodonts, which roamed the earth before the dinosaurs. Other dinosaurs that once roamed Montana include the diminuitive Bambiraptor, which was about two feet long. The feathered dinosaurs of China confirm the long-suspected evolution of modern birds from extinct dinosaurian ancestors. The first birds also appeared during the Jurassic, having evolved from a branch of theropod dinosaurs. Find more words! 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