Did dinosaurs live in the rainforest?
Rainforest as we know it today did not exist until after the extinction of dinosaurs. Thus, non-avian dinosaurs did not live in the rainforest, but birds, which are a subgroup of dinosaurs, flourish in rainforests today.
What did herbivore dinosaur eat?
Herbivorous dinosaurs ate plants. Plants that coexisted with dinosaurs include conifers, such as Auracaria and even Sequoia, cycads, ginkgoes, ferns, seed ferns, horsetails, and, toward the end of the Mesozoic, some flowering plants, including palms and primitive grasses.
Nessie was a plesiosaurus.
I should know I have a dinosaur encyclopedia.
What is a nasal passage and how did the lambeosaurus use it?
It Is A Big Dinosaur That Is White And Lambeosaurus have used its bones to make necklesses
Kinds of dinadours that are identified through fossil stone?
Sauropod dinosaurs have been identified through fossil stone
How can modern technology help scientists figure out what dinosaurs looked like?
Modern technology aids scientists in reconstructing dinosaur appearances through advanced imaging techniques like CT scans and 3D modeling. These methods allow researchers to analyze fossilized bones and soft tissue remnants, revealing insights into their structure and potential coloration. Additionally, computer simulations and digital reconstructions help visualize how these creatures might have moved and interacted with their environment. This combination of technology enhances our understanding of dinosaur biology and ecology, providing a more accurate picture of their appearance.
What do scientist think about the archaeopteryx?
The first bird to inhabit the Earth is believed to be the Archaeopteryx (meaning 'ancient wing'). It was a cat-sized bird with several reptilian features. It had a beak containing sharp teeth , claws on its wings, and a long tail with bones in the middle. They had wings, feathers and a furcula. (The furcula or wish bone in birds is a forked bone that joins the right and left shoulder joints.) Not much is known about this bird's direct ancestors or descendeants.
How tall was a long neck dinosaur?
This depends on which long-necked dinosaur you are talking about. Heights varied between species.
What animal is largest non-dinosaur land preditor ever?
The salt water or estuarine crocodile, which can grow to 6.5 m or more, and weigh over 700 kg.
What does digitigrade mean for a dinosaur?
Digitigrade refers to animals that walk on their toes, like dogs. Plantigrade refers to animals that walk on their whole foot, like humans. All dinosaurs walked on their toes; they were digitigrade.
What if there were no dinosaurs what made the oil?
Technically, petroleum is made mostly from algae and somewhat from marine animals that died in anoxic conditions caused by algal blooms hundreds of millions of years ago. Whether dinosaurs had existed or not, there would still be petroleum. As for coal, the plants that formed it lived long before the dinosaurs existed.
Did humans appear 60million years after the dinosaurs were extinct?
The earliest member of the human genus evolved 63.2 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Modern humans didn't evolve until 65.3 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Dinosaur bones are rare because the outside of the bone is actually dissolved so when the bone was still there, the pores let in sedimentary rock which hardened and the bone dissolved. THe bone you see in museums are actually rocks in the form of the bone. Thats why dinosaur bones are extremely rare.
What is an archaeopteryx and why is it so important?
Archaeopteryx is a Jurassic fossil bird that shares both bird and reptile features; it is widely accepted as the earliest and most primitive known bird. Fossils show the presence of wings and feathers, as in birds, but also teeth (which modern birds do not have), claws on the wings, and a long, lizard-like tail, with tail vertebrate, such as with reptiles (March 2001). The description of the first intact specimen in 1861 (two years after Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species), set off a firestorm of debate about evolution and the role of transitional fossils that endures to this day.