The Hot-blooded Dinosaurs: A Revolution in PalaeontologyDraws upon recent discoveries and research to recount the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, as dominant, warm-blooded animals, and to reassess their intelligence, agility, physiological complexity, and advanced social behavior. |
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... Triassic was ruled by monstrously tall ostrich - waders . ' But , ' he had once said unintentionally punning , ' the geologist should be the last of all men to trust to first impressions . 222 Yet Hitchcock himself clung obstinately to ...
... Triassic was ruled by monstrously tall ostrich - waders . ' But , ' he had once said unintentionally punning , ' the geologist should be the last of all men to trust to first impressions . 222 Yet Hitchcock himself clung obstinately to ...
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... Triassic swamps , beasts resembling long - snouted crocodiles and known as phytosaurs . These forms comprise an important Triassic group , characterised by socketed teeth - for which reason Owen styled them thecodonts , to distinguish ...
... Triassic swamps , beasts resembling long - snouted crocodiles and known as phytosaurs . These forms comprise an important Triassic group , characterised by socketed teeth - for which reason Owen styled them thecodonts , to distinguish ...
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... Triassic times - 210 million years ago and themselves developed into paradinosaurs , some later members ( for example , Ornithosuchus ) coming to greatly resemble the bipedal dinosaurian flesh - eaters . In about Mid Triassic times the ...
... Triassic times - 210 million years ago and themselves developed into paradinosaurs , some later members ( for example , Ornithosuchus ) coming to greatly resemble the bipedal dinosaurian flesh - eaters . In about Mid Triassic times the ...
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The crown of creation | 7 |
The tyrant finds its feet | 29 |
The race is to the swift the battle to the strong | 62 |
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Allosaurus American Museum ancestors animal appeared aquatic Archaeopteryx avian Bakker beast bipedal birds body bones brain brontosaur Buckland Carnegie carnivores ceratopsians cetiosaur claws coelurosaurs Colbert cold-blooded Cope Cope's creature crest crocodiles Crystal Palace Cuvier Deinonychus dinosaurian dinosaurs Diplodocus discovery dromaeosaurids early earth elephants endothermy energy erect Euparkeria evidence evolution evolved extinct feathers feet long flesh-eaters flying giant Gorgosaurus ground hadrosaurs Hawkins herbivores herds hind legs hind limbs Huxley Hypsilophodon Iguanodon jaws Jurassic Kermack Laelaps lake land late Cretaceous Leidy living lizard London lungs mammals Marsh Megalosaurus Mesozoic metabolism million years ago mosasaur muscles Natural History neck Nopcsa Ornithosuchus Osborn ostrich Ostrom Owen Owen's palaeontologists physiology plant-eaters prey probably pseudosuchian Pteranodon pterodactyls pterosaurs quarry radiation remains reptilian restoration saurians sauropods Seeley skeleton skull species specimen Struthiomimus suggested tail teeth temperature terrestrial thecodonts therapsids Triassic Triceratops Tyrannosaurus vertebrate warm-blooded weight whilst wings