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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... Tyrannosaurus , Barney Newman at the British Museum recently suggested that the forelimbs did indeed have a role to play in the beast's life . Although the forelimb refurbished with flesh was only as thick as a man's thigh , it was ...
... Tyrannosaurus , Barney Newman at the British Museum recently suggested that the forelimbs did indeed have a role to play in the beast's life . Although the forelimb refurbished with flesh was only as thick as a man's thigh , it was ...
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... Tyrannosaurus took every- body by surprise . Allosaurus , large as it was , was dwarfed by this greatest tyrant of all . Osborn's colleague at the museum , William Diller Matthew , attempted a preliminary sketch of the beast and to ...
... Tyrannosaurus took every- body by surprise . Allosaurus , large as it was , was dwarfed by this greatest tyrant of all . Osborn's colleague at the museum , William Diller Matthew , attempted a preliminary sketch of the beast and to ...
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... Tyrannosaurus do concur extremely well with Lambe's anlysis of Gorgosauus . 38 Ostrom , J. H. , 1969. Terrestrial ... Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs . Bull . Amer . Mus . Nat . Hist . , 21 , pp . 259–265 . 5 ...
... Tyrannosaurus do concur extremely well with Lambe's anlysis of Gorgosauus . 38 Ostrom , J. H. , 1969. Terrestrial ... Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs . Bull . Amer . Mus . Nat . Hist . , 21 , pp . 259–265 . 5 ...
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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