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Of the Cretaceous
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deinonychus
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Deinonychus ( ; , 'terrible' and , genitive 'claw') is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid coelurosaurian dinosaurs , with one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus . This species, which could grow up to long, lived during the early Cretaceous Period ...
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n. swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot; of the Cretaceous
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n. a small bipedal dinosaur, genus ''Deinonychus'', of the Cretaceous period, characterized by having a large, curved claw on each hind foot.
Usage examples of deinonychus.
In its other hand, a knobby three-fingered one, it held the end of a leash, and straining at the leash’s far end was a something that looked more like the stuffed deinonychus at Natural History than anything Dairine had ever seen.
No kicks, she told herself, if one kick doesn’t take this thing out, you’ll never have time for a second-It leapt at her, but she was already swinging: Dairine hit the deinonychus right in the face with the computer and felt something crunch.
Oh, please don t let it be the plastic, she thought, and then the impetus of the deinonychus carried it right into her, its broken jaw knocked against her face as it fell, she almost fell with it.
They watched Dairine deal with the deinonychus, and afterward with the BEM that grabbed her.
The deinonychus with the box went first, and the others followed behind, hissing softly as they went.
That’s the problem, of course, she thought as she used it for the second time, and the third, and the fourth, and as Urruah got up, his jaws running with the pinkish-tinged saurian blood, and launched himself at another saurian, a deinonychus that was in the act of jumping at Saash from behind.
Theropod skeletons, like the Deinonychus, were rare enough to be noteworthy, but fully-articulated skeletons—skeletons that had remained pretty much connected as they had been in life—were vanishingly rare.
All five skeletons were fully articulated, possibly the finest specimens of Deinonychus ever uncovered—and all of them were sitting on a stippled red and purple layer that was the K-T boundary itself.
Theropod skeletons, like the Deinonychus , were rare enough to be noteworthy, but fully-articulated skeletons—skeletons that had remained pretty much connected as they had been in life—were vanishingly rare.
His eyes closed and he could see them moving now, not just the crummy dinosaurs you could see on TV but the special ones: the tiny, vicious deinonychus, the "terrible claw.
Deinonychus is the name of the dinosaur that had a wrist joint that looks the same as the wing joint in the Archeopteryx, and the Archeopteryx has feathers and wings, hence is seen as the first bird.