| 单词 | dinosaur |
| 释义 | dinosaur (daɪnəsɔːʳ ) Word forms: dinosaurs 1. countable noun A2 Dinosaurs were large reptiles which lived in prehistoric times. 2. countable noun If you refer to an organization as a dinosaur, you mean that it is large, inefficient, and out of date. [disapproval] ...industrial dinosaurs. Collocations: dinosaur egg A chance to see the first dinosaur egg ever found. Times, Sunday Times They removed the object for closer inspection, joking that it was a dinosaur egg. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He hypothesized that the supposed embryo could have been an adult anurognathid fossilized while eating the contents of a dinosaur egg, large enough to contain it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Dinosaur eggs took up to six months to hatch, and the lengthy incubation may have played a role in their extinction, research suggests. Times, Sunday Times Fossil dinosaur eggs have been reported from the formation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Tyrannosaurus rex was the king of beasts, living towards the end of the dinosaur era, about 66m years ago. Times, Sunday Times During the dinosaur era, the lizard brain (the brain stem) was geared only to survival functions. Times, Sunday Times This 'old' dinosaur era was a predominantly slow-motion world of greys, browns and greens. Times, Sunday Times The giant totara, rimu, matai, miro and kahikatea trees tower 4060 metres, and belong to an ancient family of trees dating from the dinosaur era. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The existence of insect pollination dates back to the dinosaur era. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A bird-like pubis arrangement, parallel to the vertebral column, evolved independently three times in dinosaur evolution, namely in the ornithischians, therizinosauroids and bird-like dromaeosaurids. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite losing most of their effectiveness, dinosaur evolution had not yet removed the these digits to fully streamline the foot. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This removed dinosaurs from playing a central role in debates about the origin of living species, and may have contributed to the decline of academic interest in dinosaur evolution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some consider it a saurischian dinosaur close to the beginnings of dinosaur evolution, while others consider it a dinosauromorph, an archosaur near the evolution of the dinosaurs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If there's a pool at the hotel, that helps; if there's a museum with a dinosaur exhibit, that helps. Times, Sunday Times Access to the separate floors can be obtained via a central spiral staircase, or the popular glass elevator the rises above the towering dinosaur exhibit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other features include a dinosaur exhibit and a rotating exhibition space that holds anything from history to art exhibitions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By the 1980s, the museum's permanent displays included a dinosaur exhibit, a space museum, and exhibits on geology, biology, petroleum science, technology, and geography. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other notable successes later in the decade were several iterations of a traveling robotic dinosaur exhibit, which led to the center eventually installing a permanent dinosaur display in the 1990s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The site, which was cleared to build a new road, has yielded thousands of dinosaur footprints, relics known as 'trace fossils'. Times, Sunday Times The dinosaur footprints too, which are scattered over the kingdom, take the breath away. Times, Sunday Times These ancient lands, covered in fossilised dinosaur footprints, must provide the richest research laboratory a geologist could ever want. The Sun A few miles down a bumpy track, and sadly unprotected by the side of the road, we inspected dinosaur footprints. Times, Sunday Times But never mind the exhibits — the dinosaur footprints, the ancient skeletons — it's the grand building itself that matters. Times, Sunday Times In many digs, resources and funding constraints mean that paleontologists spend an entire field season—or several—digging up one dinosaur fossil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since then employment has been generated in tourism (attractions from dinosaur fossil discoveries, outdoor recreation, and nearby provincial parks), forestry, and oil and gas exploration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other ghost towns were created in the aftermath of dinosaur fossil rushes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her discovery of dinosaur fossils has sparked a debate over the world's creation. Times, Sunday Times Dinosaur experts - called palaeontologists - use dinosaur fossils to draw conclusions about how dinosaurs behaved and what they looked like. Times, Sunday Times More unusual future careers include being a superhero, doughnut shop worker and working in a dinosaur museum, the poll found. The Sun He became so obsessed with dinosaurs after seeing the film that he turned his bedroom into a dinosaur museum and accumulated a library of hundreds of dinosaur books. Times, Sunday Times Visitors may also take short elephant ride, ride a train, enjoy a paddle boat ride or explore the dinosaur museum. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Which brings us to a dinosaur named troodon, a type of theropod, which had one of the largest brain-to-mass ratios of its time. Times, Sunday Times It was the first dinosaur named in that year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The characters have names who are based on dinosaur names. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first British auction of a large dinosaur skeleton takes place. Times, Sunday Times (2013) High points include a giant yellow taxi driving on to the stage and a scene set in a museum featuring a huge dinosaur skeleton. The Sun (2007) And a real dinosaur skeleton. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Would they have any chance of withstanding the ages, like the dinosaur tracks that pock the stone at various places around the park? Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also studied dinosaur tracks and eggs, phytosaurs, chelonians, and whales. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Indeterminate fossil dinosaur tracks have been reported from the formation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fossil dinosaur tracks are also known and include theropod and ankylosaur. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were the smallest dinosaur tracks ever found. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As these small, wiry dinosaurs evolved, however, they grew larger, developing massive heads and eventually losing their reliance on their forelimbs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It dates to 227 to 237 million years ago, around the time when the first mammals and dinosaurs evolved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A tiny creature that was trapped in amber for 99 million years may tell us when dinosaurs evolved into birds. Times,Sunday Times This led to the entry of certain concepts about dinosaurs, such as the theory that dinosaurs evolved into birds and had very little in common with lizards. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The earth had only just cooled and dinosaurs roamed the planet. The Sun In them there days, dinosaurs roamed. Times, Sunday Times That's because we have low inflation and the best economy since dinosaurs roamed the planet. Times, Sunday Times We weren't able to make it farther east to where dinosaurs roamed 140 million years ago. The Sun Travel back 67 million years towhen dinosaurs roamed the earth. The Sun After the extinction of dinosaurs, marine reptiles and gigantic fish, there was an evolutionary opportunity for penguins to thrive. Times, Sunday Times Researchers said the species showed continued diversity among raptors right up to the extinction of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. Times,Sunday Times The international study provides compelling evidence that mammals grew in size and complexity only when an ecological niche was left vacant after the extinction of dinosaurs. Times, Sunday Times These deadly fungi have actually been linked to the extinction of dinosaurs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, in all these localities mammals were small and filled only limited places in the ecosystem until the mass extinction of dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are part of the sauropod group of huge plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks. The Sun Volcanic activity and changing temperatures hit plant-eating dinosaurs - and their predators. The Sun It was named for its prominent, rodent-like front teeth, which show wear patterns commonly found in plant-eating dinosaurs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Experts who examined the foot concluded that it belonged to the same theropod dinosaur whose skeleton was uncovered after a cliff fall at the beach last year. Times, Sunday Times The three-toed footprints were made by a theropod dinosaur about the size of a robin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 First thought to be a theropod dinosaur, it was later determined to be a proterosuchid. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He mistakenly describes them as crocodillian, although later researchers have concluded that these remains almost certainly belonged to a theropod dinosaur. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Originally it was believed be a theropod dinosaur. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 恐龙 Japanese: 恐竜 |
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