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tyrannosaur

n. Any large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the family Tyrannosauridae, that lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.

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tyrannosaur

n. large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America [syn: tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex]

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Tyrannosaur (film)

Tyrannosaur is a 2011 British drama film written and directed by Paddy Considine in his directorial debut. The film stars Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Paul Popplewell and Sally Carman.

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A guy named Roxton made casts of rex braincases, and concluded that tyrannosaurs had the brain of a frog.

Observing the eating habits of animals as different as cats, ladybugs, sharks, and dinosaurs like the tyrannosaur will be instructive.

He had a street bike, a plug-in computer, and a pet microsaur, a cat-sized tyrannosaur in purple funfur.

Many of them were ankylosaurs and other armored creatures, protected thus far by the heavy armor that had evolved to fend off the teeth and claws of tyrannosaurs.

The tyrannosaur had been the top predator, mistress of the land for a hundred kilometers around, as if the whole elaborate ecosystem was a vast farm run for her benefit.

He had glimpses of the tyrannosaur down by the lagoon, lunging at the hadrosaurs, which swung their big tails in defense and bonked loudly and continuously.

I keep the tyrannosaurs from eating all the brontosaurs by giving them meat at a feeding station at the bottom of my monolith.

From over the edge of the monolith came the deep gurgling cries of brontosaurs and the express-train rumbling of a tyrannosaur, like the beginning of a snow avalanche.

Still we saw the clawed tracks of carnosaurs, most of them considerably smaller than tyrants, although there were plenty of tyrannosaur tracks as well.

Unlike tyrannosaurs they had big hands and long, strong arms they used to grab on to the diplo while dismembering him.

Tim looked up and saw the tyrannosaur crashing down the cyclone fence with a giant hind limb.

On the far end of the living room, the stegosaur pair, Zack and Kip, were playing with Jean-Claude and Pierrot, the theropod tyrannosaurs, a game using checker pieces whipped across the floor with their tails, like hockey pucks.

The mouse-raptor was a land shark, like a tyrannosaur, a body design rediscovered and made devastatingly effective.

Where the tyrannosaurs were solitary ambush hunters, the giganotosaurs were pack animals.

Actually, the Biblical patriarchs were contemporaries with all the creatures in the fossil record, including trilobites, pterosaurs, giant ferns, nine-foot sea scorpions, dragonflies two feet across, tyrannosaurs, and so forth.