(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."
Raptor
Definition:
(n.) A ravisher; a plunderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) M. raptor appeared to be more effective than U. rufipes in parasitizing pupae located at sites where natural fly-breeding occurred.
(2) The domestic chicken is precocial at hatching whereas most raptors are semi-altricial.
(3) Five incidences of bird mortality in Georgia and West Virginia (USA) involving migratory waterfowl, cranes, raptors, corvids and songbirds were investigated during the first 6 mo of 1988.
(4) M. raptor, which was released inside the barn, parasitized fly pupae both inside and outside, and it achieved highest rates of parasitism in indoor straw calf-bedding and in outdoor manure and silage.
(5) Variation observed at one o of the sex-linked fragments in peregrines has proven to be useful in distinguishing a subset of the tundrius subspecies of this endangered raptor.
(6) The Toronto Raptors, who definitely deserve an All-Star considering their out-of-nowhere success, might have been better off being represented by Kyle Lowry .
(7) The tightly encased raptor eye, with its anteriorly placed scleral ossicles, may have rendered the eye more susceptible to contrecoup damage.
(8) However the ipsilateral contingent was proportionally larger in the nocturnal raptor.
(9) A combination of ketamine HCl and diazepam given intravenously was successfully utilized to induce anesthesia for various surgical procedures in 40 raptors.
(10) Blood culture of 142 raptors of 11 species for Trypanosoma revealed a prevalence of 41.5%.
(11) Since 2000, 20 gamekeepers have been found guilty of “raptor persecution” or poisoning offences on grouse moorland, including one who killed a hen harrier in Scotland.
(12) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
(13) Gram-negative bacteria, which were cultured from the feces of 45 of the 47 raptors, were the most common isolates.
(14) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
(15) He talks of forging a relationship with his posse of raptors, rather than trying to control them.
(16) Not only is every team in the Atlantic Division currently under .500, they have gone winless against teams outside their division since the Toronto Raptors' Sunday night victory over the Los Angeles Lakers .
(17) The Decision , as the ESPN program was called, created a NBA superteam of sorts as James "took his talents to South Beach" to join hometown hero Dwyane Wade and the Toronto Raptors All-Star Chris Bosh.
(18) Ray plotting through traced foveal outlines suggests that sharp images will be formed beneath the centre and shoulders, with the centre image enlarged enough to account for the high acuity of raptors.
(19) "To do one DP (designated player) is a smart move, to do two DP's is not the smartest thing ever done and to do three is financial suicide," said Leiweke, whose sporting portfolio also includes the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and NBA's Raptors.
(20) Other things we've learned • While the headline coming into Sunday night's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Toronto Raptors was the return of Kobe Bryant, the highlight of the night was provided by the man known as Swaggy P : Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yes Nick Young, had the play of the game.