They were big in the past

Usage examples of dinosaurs.

The idea was that suddenly the forest floor would be overwhelmed with baby dinosaurs, far too many for even the hungriest of predators.

Tooth, the size of a dog, was not the largest of dinosaurs, but she was intelligent and agile.

But smaller dinosaurs, like the troodon, needed a little extra insulation.

The smaller, more lithe dinosaurs that ran or stalked through the undergrowth would have seemed surreal: There was nothing like these bipedal runners in human times.

In those days the continents were fused into the single vast Pangaean landmass, and the dinosaurs had been able to spread across the planet.

It was that combination of energy efficiency and lethal effectiveness that had kept the dinosaurs supreme for so long.

To Purga the dinosaurs were a force of nature, as beyond her control as the weather.

Earth turned and the air cooled and the dinosaurs settled into their nightly torpor, at their feet the dirt stirred.

And then there were the carnivorous dinosaurs, who hunted the hunters in turn.

Some of the dinosaurs even felt drowsy, as their nervous systems reacted to the reduced level of light.

All the dinosaurs turned that way, shocked and startled, their innate animosity briefly forgotten.

Even after this cataclysmic shock, she had vague visions of arrays of dinosaurs waiting in silent rows to trap any mammal unwise enough to poke her snout out of her burrow.

And the ash was burned life, trees and mammals and divergent species of dinosaurs from America and China and Australia and Antarctica, burned to cinders by the global firestorms and then burned again in the pulse of superheat, now mingled together in the choked stratosphere.

There was no scent of green growing things, nor the pungent, spicy stink of the dinosaurs, not even of their dung.

Any surviving dinosaurs were succumbing to hunger and cold, their bones quickly stripped of flesh by the surviving predators.