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The once--and always--king of the dinosaurs. ... T. Rex is by far the most popular of all dinosaurs, spawning a huge number of books, movies, TV shows and video games. What's truly amazing, though, is how much about this carnivore that was once assumed as fact has lately been called into question.
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dinosaurs.about.com/od/carnivorousdinosaurs/p/tyrannosa...
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Take the report last month that Spinosaurus is now officially the biggest carnivorous dinosaur known to science. This two-legged beast actually strode onto the fossil scene in 1915 when ... Herbivorous sauropods dwarfed carnivorous theropod dinosaurs, and most scientists think Argentinasaurus was the longest of all dinosaurs.
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www.livescience.com/animals/060301_big_carnivores.html
www.livescience.com/animals/060301_big_carnivores.html
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Several characters that typify a theropod: hollow, thin-walled bones are diagnostic of theropod dinosaurs. A jumbled box containing theropod bones (from the UCMP collections) is shown at right.
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/theropoda.htm...
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/theropoda.html
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Diverse carnivorous dinosaurs ... The Tetanurae are a large, diverse group of theropod dinosaurs, characterized by a few features that most members possess (using the principles of cladistics, we know that those tetanurans that lack these features must have lost them during their evolutionary history).
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/tetanurae.htm...
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/tetanurae.html
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"This new dinosaur Tawa hallae changes our understanding of the relationships of early dinosaurs, and provides fantastic insight into the evolution of the skeleton of the first carnivorous dinosaurs" said Randall Irmis of the Utah Museum of Natural History and University of Utah, a co-author of the study.
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210153532.htm
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Other Free Encyclopedias :: Science Encyclopedia :: Science & Philosophy - Creationism to Emotion :: Dinosaur - Biology Of Dinosaurs, Fossils And Other Evidence Of The Dinosaurs, Major Groups Of Dinosaurs, Carnivorous Dinosaurs...
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science.jrank.org/pages/2096/Dinosaur-Carnivorous-dinos...
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The new species is one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs ever to have lived. Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis was probably 13-14 metres long, making it taller than a double-decker bus. It had a skull about 1.75 metres long and its teeth were the size of bananas.
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www.fossilscience.com/research/New_species_is_one_of_th...
www.fossilscience.com/research/New_species_is_one_of_the_largest_carnivorous_dinosaurs_ever_to_have_lived.asp
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Small Late Jurassic theropod dinosaurs are rare worldwide. In Europe these carnivorous dinosaurs are represented primarily by only two skeletons of Compsognathus1, 2, neither of which is well preserved.
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www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7082/abs/nature0457...
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7082/abs/nature04579.html
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Dinosaur diets. More dinosaurs were herbivores (plant-eaters) than were meat-eaters (carnivores). ... Carnivorous dinosaurs usually had long, strong legs so thay they could run quickly in order to catch their prey. They also needed large, strong jaws, sharp teeth, and deadly claws so they could kill and then tear apart the prey.
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/anatomy/Di...
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/anatomy/Diet.shtml
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