A 50-foot-long carnivore who hunted its prey in rivers 97 million years ago, the Spinosaurus is a "dragon from deep time." Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim and his crew found new fossils, hidden in cliffs of the Moroccan Sahara desert, that are ...
A 50-foot-long carnivore who hunted its prey in rivers 97 million years ago, the spinosaurus is a "dragon from deep time." Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim and his crew found new fossils, hidden in cliffs of the Moroccan Sahara desert, that are helping us learn more about the first swimming d...
How long did sauropods exist?Sauropoda:The term Sauropoda was first coined by the American Paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh (O.T. Marsh) way back in 1878. It derived from Greek words (Sauros and Podos) and literally means lizard foot. This dinosaur clade was a part of a larger clade...
I can resurrect entire lost worlds," says Nizar Ibrahim, a paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer who was part of a team that recently found tail bones of a Spinosaurus dinosaur in the Sahara Desert. The bones were a noteworthy discovery because their structure indicates that the ...
because of its overpowering size and strength. The T-Rex’s tail was long and heavy in order to balance thedinosaur’s massive head and torso. To support an animal so large in size, a lot of its bones were hollow in order to reduce its weight but not enough where it would lose ...
For many years, scientists were unable to determine how long dinosaur eggs incubated before hatching. As birds evolved from dinosaurs and their eggs hatch quickly, researchers were unsure whether to believe dinosaur eggs also hatched quickly or whether dinosaur eggs had extended incubation like other ...
as was that rampagingSpinosauruson the long-since-canceled TV series "Terra Nova." But the fact is that we know virtually nothing about the speed of individual dinosaurs, except for what can be extrapolated from preserved footprints or inferred by comparisons with modern animals—and none of tha...
And as long as the DPS was still behind a rex to prevent the rex from being bumped, Id see this as a win. But that is if wildcard would take such advice, and the problem with that is right now they are more focused on a new map, Christmas junk, and more...
Next, a one-fifth-scale maquette is made. This sounds small, until you realize the sheer size of the Spinosaurus. The one-fifth-scale model was about 8 feet (2.4 m) long! The larger maquette allows the designers to add more surface detail. This maquette is then used to produce the ful...
They're perfect for the job, using long tongues like drinking straws to suck up the sweet flower nectar. They also have two stomachs, storing the nectar in one called a honey stomach, which acts like the grocery bags we bring home from the store. It can take over a thousand flowers to...