What's the difference between apatosaur and dinosaur?
Apatosaur
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Dinosaur
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(n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian
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(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) In 1868, Thomas Huxley suggested that Archaeopteryx was an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds.
(3) Fossil eggs attributable to dinosaur (probably prosauropod) parentage that have been recovered from the early Jurassic Elliot Formation sediments at the Rooidraai locality possess shells that are similar to those of birds and crocodilians, and distinctly unlike those of chelonians and gekkonids.
(4) A dinosaur bone was examined with the aim to demonstrate in it the presence of lipids and to determine their localization.
(5) Dinosaur embryos moved around inside their eggs and grew in much the same way as those of modern animals such as birds, say scientists who have examined more than 200 fossilised bones from 190m-year-old embryos found in China.
(6) It’s a dinosaur from the days of the fixed line telephone and the fax machine.
(7) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.
(8) But the Sunday Mirror's Kevin O'Sullivan thought the whole episode was a "lacklustre affair", from the plot to the dinosaur and robots who made an appearance.
(9) He always had stereotypically male interests like soccer, karate and dinosaurs.
(10) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(11) Steve Cole is best known as the ever-scribbling, slightly crazy author of the Astrosaurs book series – featuring dinosaurs in space – as well as Cows in Action and The Slime Squad.
(12) Although they have a distinctive training advantage in the emerging quality-driven industry over that of physician-M.B.A.s, most physician-attorneys have continued to use these skills in the reactionary world of litigation, which will rapidly go the way of the dinosaur in the 1990s.
(13) Dinosaurs disappeared in the Maastrichtian near the peak of their historic diversity.
(14) The kinds of details that such specimens can bring to questions of growth and development are most important for understanding dinosaur ecology and this baby, which clocks in at less than 6 feet (around 1.8 m) in total length, has a lot to tell us.
(15) The Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period, was named after him in 2001.
(16) The Disney-owned studio which gave us Toy Story, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Up and Wall-E has already debuted the trailer for Inside Out , which arrives in June in US cinemas (24 July in the UK), while we’ve just been treated to some new concept art for November’s The Good Dinosaur .
(17) Dinosaurs actually have rings in their bones rather similar to those of trees and so you can take a sample of a bone, count the rings and work out the age of the individual at hand.
(18) Because the fossils, unearthed in north-eastern China , are older than previous discoveries of similar creatures, the find adds weight to the theory that birds descended from predatory dinosaurs.
(19) As the unveiling of a life-sized statue on Friday confirmed, Theco – full name Thecodontosaurus antiquus – is not the most spectacular of dinosaurs, measuring no bigger than a labrador dog.
(20) "People are aware of the extinction of the dinosaurs, but they don't know that we are currently experiencing a mass extinction of our crop diversity."