How to Use hadrosaur in a Sentence

hadrosaur

noun
  • In March, a study was published that looked at the fossilized teeth of a hadrosaur and concluded that its journeys were short, roughly 50 miles.
    Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The research looked at fossilized teeth of a hadrosaur and concluded that its journeys were short, roughly 50 miles.
    Fox News, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The object is a just a scant shard of cartilage from the skull of a baby hadrosaur called Hypacrosaurus that perished more than 70 million years ago.
    Riley Black, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2020
  • In cooler months, a hadrosaur might chaw rotten logs to get their daily fiber—with mushrooms and insects adding a little protein to the mix.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The crew has been working at the site for about two months and uncovered between 30 and 50 bones that came from a single young hadrosaur that was about three or four years old, according to the statement.
    David Williams, CNN, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 June 2017
  • Look for the world's largest giant squid fossil, a prehistoric turtle the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and a rare 67 million-year-old mummified hadrosaur with skin and scales visible.
    Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Others turn out to be familiar—a duckbill dinosaur previously thought to be a new species has turned out to be Edmontosaurus, a wide-ranging hadrosaur found elsewhere.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The bones of paddlefish and sturgeons who died in the Chicxulub Impact indicated that the asteroid struck in the spring, and a hadrosaur in Blagoveshchensk was presumed to have broken its ulna while eating leaves or mating.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Collectively, the sequences showed the purported hadrosaur collagen was more closely related to T. rex and birds than to modern reptiles.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Studies of dinosaur growth have indicated that hadrosaurs rapidly packed on the pounds as a defense against carnivores, so an adult hadrosaur represents the size threshold when potential lunch became too much of a bother.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • In a Cretaceous Research study, paleontologists described a new species of hadrosaur found in Morocco.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
  • How to hunt proteins in dinosaur fossils Mary Schweitzer and her colleagues first remove minerals from fossils such as a hadrosaur femur, leaving organic material behind.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Richard Antonucci of Boca Raton examined a display of real fossils, including a hadrosaur tibia from 75 million years ago that was discovered in Montana.
    Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • For example, the plant and insect traces inside confirm what many paleontologists already hypothesized: that some hadrosaurs, including the 9 meter-long Prosaurolophus, fed on conifers near coastal floodplains.
    John Pickrell, Science | AAAS, 29 Nov. 2019

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