Crocodile's ancestor

Usage examples of dinosaur.

Not simply in terms of the popular image of an anachronism surviving past its time, as if in a Vemlan romance where dinosaurs were found in an Amazon swamp.

Bakker, the lowfeeding dinosaurs helped promote the success of angiosperms even while they ate them.

Dinosaurs like Triceratops were big and could devour a lot of flowering plants, but they could not do it as fast as some angiosperms could flower, reproduce, and root again.

Sudarat and her boys are going to come home with a hold full of early angiosperms and dinosaur eggs.

Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, where he pursues a vigorous research program in the biogeography of southern hemisphere dinosaurs.

These bipedal dinosaurs had very short forelimbs, but their unique feature was the unusual thickness of their skull roofs, which in several Late Cretaceous forms are fused into a single massive element forming a high dome.

All other saurischian dinosaurs make up the bipedal carnivorous theropods.

Dinosaurs living in the oases now preserved in the Navajo Sandstone were generally small, bipedal desert specialists.

Recently, Kevin Padian has noted a similarity between the hind limbs and feet of pterosaurs and dinosaurs, suggesting that they may have been bipedal, walking only on their hind legs.

The ornithopods, in turn, are close to other contemporary groups, the horned, ceratopsian dinosaurs and the domeheaded pachycephalosaurs.

Fieldwork by Cope, Marsh, and their collectors led to the uncovering of the first specimens of sauropod and ceratopsian dinosaurs.

Although Marsh maintained collectors at Como Bluff until 1889, and profited from later discoveries of ceratopsian dinosaurs in other locations in Wyoming and Colorado, the nature of his dispute with Cope had changed by the late 1870s.

With the advent of the duckbilled hadrosaurs come lower-slung creatures, also with closely packed, interlocking teeth: the ceratopsians or horned dinosaurs.

He had been expecting something green and vaguely crocodilian, like the dragons in picture books, not the product of an unnatural mating between a dinosaur and a calliope.

The Crocodylotarsi lineage led to the crocodilians, while the Ornithosuchia lineage terminated in the dinosaurs and birds.