dinosaur
dinosaurus
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These great birds were the last successors of the mighty theropod dinosaurs of the Mesozoic.
a fossil reptile of the Mesozoic era, often reaching an enormous size.
I still get invites but I feel like a dinosaur and a bit of a has-been now.
a person or thing that is outdated or has become obsolete because of failure to adapt to changing circumstances.
translation of 'dinosaur'
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dinosauria
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He was also able to travel to Bloemfontein to compare the fossils with those of an early 'dinosaur' in the National Museum.
They do still have two skeletons of Tarbosaurus, a theropod 'dinosaur' related to Tyrannosaurus rex.
It was a fairly large 'dinosaur' , the same size as the future Tyrannosaurus Rex.
I still get invites but I feel like a 'dinosaur' and a bit of a has-been now.
These were the fragmentary remains of an armored 'dinosaur' , an ankylosaur.
She said: "I suppose at 30 I'm considered a bit of a 'dinosaur' in the industry."
This ballet is a bit of a 'dinosaur' .
More distantly related to true 'dinosaurs' were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
Thirty years later, the cave city of Matera still stands on the ravine over the River Gravina, a 'dinosaurian' pile the colour of the sandy earth.
The ornithopod 'dinosaurs' that left these tracks may have been quadrupedal, walking on all fours.
If it is alive then it probably is not a dinosaur, since 'dinosaurs' are extinct.
He is like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, leading a herd of corporate 'dinosaurs' over the cliff and bellowing as he goes.
These forms represent all of the major groups of the first, Triassic, 'dinosaurian' radiation: Sauropodomorpha, Theropoda, Cerapoda, and Thyreophora, respectively.
Birds arose from theropod 'dinosaurs' at some point in the Jurassic, according to present knowledge.
At the foot of the mountain, colourful fossils of shells and 'dinosaurs' add a mysterious flavour to the place.
The ornithodires went on to produce pterosaurs and 'dinosaurs' , including the birds.
His work provided strong, compelling support for the theory that birds are theropod 'dinosaurs' .
There is the added question of how the 'dinosaurs' are to be fossilised in a desert.
Amongst these 'dinosaurian' beasts, horses were keeping cool in the hazy, humid heat, by standing knee deep in the shallow water.
The 'dinosaurs' of the Mesozoic era in a sense presaged the birds and mammals of the Cenozoic era.
The size of 'dinosaurs' , whales, and elephants should serve as an example.
We are so used to the enormous size of 'dinosaurs' that we almost forget to think about how they grew to be so large.
There were many kinds of ornithischian 'dinosaurs' , dating back to the early Jurassic.
At the time, paleontologists were stuck in a reptilian perspective on 'dinosaurs' .
Some dinosaurs may have jumped or hopped occasionally, but the characteristic hopping of many small songbirds is probably a specialized feature of advanced birds, not something they inherited from their 'dinosaurian' ancestors.
Ichthyosaurs were not 'dinosaurs' , but represent a separate group of marine vertebrates.
These great birds were the last successors of the mighty theropod 'dinosaurs' of the Mesozoic.
The layer was generally at the place in the fossil record where the 'dinosaurs' disappeared.
This, the last period of 'dinosaurian' evolution, was also the period of their greatest diversity, although only a fraction of the types (mainly latest Cretaceous Western North American and Asian forms) are known.
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