Their characteristics prove them an offshoot of the dinosaur line of reptiles.
A skeleton mount from these specimens will shortly be constructed for the Cretaceous Dinosaur Hall.
Skeleton of Ornitholestes a small carnivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic period.
One of the skeletons is temporarily placed in the centre of the Quaternary Hall, space for it in the present Dinosaur Hall being lacking.
From these it appears that in length of neck and fore limb this East African Dinosaur greatly exceeded either Brontosaurus or Diplodocus.
The latter rounded out and gave variety to the dinosaur society, and there is no doubt that they served the savage but useful purpose, rendered familiar by the doctrine of Malthus, of checking overpopulation.
Skull and lower jaw of Armored Dinosaur Ankylosaurus, from Upper Cretacic (Edmonton formation) of Alberta.
The keen sense of smell of the mammal, the keen vision of the bird, the highly developed reasoning power of both, were absent in the dinosaur as in the lizard or crocodile.
Why, there have been fossil bones of a dinosaur found right in the Connecticut Valley!
Skeleton of the curious kind of dinosaur (stegosaur) of Mesozoic Age with great bony plates over the back.
Skeleton of a dinosaur (triceratops) with a large remarkable head.
Skeleton (restored) of a great two-legged dinosaur of the Mesozoic era.
A marvelously preserved specimen of one of these two-legged plant eaters found in Wyoming, has been called a "dinosaur mummy" because the skin and much of the flesh of the creature had shriveled down upon its bones.
Another remarkable type of two-legged dinosaur was much like the flesh eaters just described, but they were plant eaters.
In following the trail, Nelson encounters and slays an allosaurus, a terrible, carnivorous species of dinosaur surviving from the Cretaceous era.
The tricky Jarmuthians, however, mount their men on a diplodocus, a huge dinosaur some eighty-seven feet in length.
Brushy Basin Member Variegated shale, some sandstone and conglomerate, petrified wood, chert, and dinosaur bones.
Defn: A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England.
Defn: An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon.
All those chunks of dinosaur meat in the preserving hold are going to get packed up.
I don't ever want to see or taste a dinosaur steak again, he thought.
What was not expected were the remains of a smaller dinosaur comingled with those of its huge contemporary.
The mammals that live in the vicinity of the Dinosaur Quarry are almost never seen.
This building encloses a significant part of the Dinosaur Quarry, perhaps the greatest deposit of fossil dinosaur bones known today.
Dinosaur bones have been found in these deposits—even in such far-away places as Australia and the southern tip of South America.
In Dinosaur National Monument, the positions in which partial skeletons of the dinosaurs lie suggest that they decomposed on a sandbar.
In 1776, the Spaniard, Father Escalante, passed within sight of today’s dinosaur quarry, not dreaming of the antiquity hidden there.
A one-time favorite theory suggested that increasing numbers of small mammals ate dinosaur eggs, but there were many mammals eating dinosaur eggs during all of Cretaceous time and the dinosaurhordes increased.
The most striking difference is in the fact that in the Dinosaur the nostrils are nearly terminal, while in the Pterodactyle they are removed some distance backward.
But while Pterodactyles are sometimes Mammalian in having the head of the thigh bone moulded as in carnivorous Mammals and Man, the corresponding bone in a Dinosaur is more like that of a Bird.
Few of these fossil Dinosaur skulls are available for comparison, and those differ among themselves.
In such a Dinosaur as the American carnivorous Ceratosaurus the two bars of the pubis and ischium remain separate and diverging, and there is no film of bone extending over the interspace between them.
If this region of the beak in Dimorphodon be compared with the corresponding part of a Dinosaur from the Permian rocks, or Trias, the relation of the nostril to the bones forming the beak may be better understood.
The skull of a carnivorous Dinosaur possesses teeth which, though easily distinguished from those of Pterodactyles, can be best compared with them.
The spazz dinosaur that's so embarrassed all the other dinosaurs that none of them want to rescue it.
Big lumberingdinosaur that is thrashing in the tar pit.
The inscription beneath it runs: 'Probable appearance in life of the Jurassic Dinosaur Stegosaurus.
Pretty bad," said he, when he had heard of thedinosaur and the pit.
An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon.
A large Wealden dinosaurfrom the Tilgate Forest, England.
The plan of this was good, for, with his attention fixed on three objects, the dinosaur seemed confused, and though Bearwarden and Ayrault had good angles from which to shoot, there was no possibility of their hitting each other.
The dinosaurlowered his head as if to charge, thereby bringing it to a level with the rifles, either of which could have given it the fatal shot.
The Phytosaur was a distant relative of the Dinosaur but became extinct before the Dinosaur reached its peak of development.
In the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, the mounted skeleton of the giant Dinosaur fairly takes one's breath away.
Oh, the dinosaur and I have patched up a truce, because it seems, after all, that I had mistaken his identity and he was a pleosaur.
He spoke first, and in the voice that went with his vaguest mood; the voice in which he had described his escape from the dinosaur whose scales had become wedged in the defile at the critical moment.
If I went back now out of fear of Pete Leddy," he continued, "that dinosaur would know that I was such insignificant prey he would not even take the trouble to knock me down with a forepaw.
In view of the dinosaur nonsense she was already prepared for a variety of inventional talk from him.
We'll get a pole and prod the dinosaur through the narrow part of the pass and hear him roar his awfullest.
There is a big dinosaur come to life on the other side," he proceeded.
The two large horns come immediately over the eyes, and the small one above the nose; this Dinosaur was, therefore, well provided with weapons of offence, such as would be highly useful in driving away or wounding carnivorous enemies.
Small Bipedal Dinosaur from the Jurassic of Northern Arizona: Proc.
Here, eighteen miles east of the town of Vernal, eighty acres of the exposed Morrison strata were set aside in 1915 as the Dinosaur National Monument.
The only complete skeleton of a dinosaur ever found was taken out in 1909.
Alexandra unwraps a special Apatosaurus doll that goes 'beep' when she squeezes it, a dinosaur doll's nest lined with tiny leaves and twigs, and a blackboard on a tripod with different colored chalk sticks.
They are excited to hear that anotherdinosaur family has moved into their neighborhood, and that a birthday party was coming soon.
Yet look at the dinosaur in "The Strange Adventures of a Pebble" and see if you can't make out a good deal of the ostrich and the crocodile in him.
The first Dinosaur to be formally recognized as representing quite a new order of reptiles was the carnivorous Megalosaur, found near Oxford, England, in 1824.
The Horned Ceratosaurus, a Carnivorous Dinosaur From a drawing by J.
Thespesius, a Common Herbivorous Dinosaurof the Cretaceous From a drawing by Charles R.
At least two examples of the great Dinosaur Thespesius have been found with the bones all in place, the thigh bones still in their sockets and the ossified tendons running along the backbone as they did in life.
In England, however, the tracks first found were those ascribed to tortoises, though a little later Dinosaur footprints were discovered in the same locality.
Stegosaurus, an Armored Dinosaur of the Jurassic From a drawing by Charles R.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dinosaur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
