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Camptosaurus (/ ˌ k æ m p t ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s / KAMP-tə-SOR-əs) is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe. [1] The name means 'flexible lizard' (Greek καμπτος (kamptos) meaning 'bent' and σαυρος (sauros) meaning 'lizard').
A new plant-eating dinosaur species discovered in Japan has been named after gnomes for its small size.. The animal, measuring about 3ft in length and 10kg in weight, was an ancestor of the ...
Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek polys-/πολύς-"many" and akantha/ἄκανθα "thorn" or "prickle", [5] is an early armoured, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaurian dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period of England.
List of Asian dinosaurs; List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs; List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand; List of European dinosaurs; List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs; List of North American dinosaurs. List of Appalachian dinosaurs; List of archosaurs of the Chinle Formation; List of dinosaurs of the Morrison ...
Alethopteris is a prehistoric plant genus of fossil pteridospermatophytes (seed ferns) that developed in the Carboniferous period (around 1] Alethopteris, at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. Alethopteris sp. Alethopteris Serlii on laminated mudstone from St. Clair, Pennsylvania.
Coprolites (fossilized droppings) of some Late Cretaceous hadrosaurs show that the animals sometimes deliberately ate rotting wood. Wood itself is not nutritious, but decomposing wood would have contained fungi, decomposed wood material and detritus-eating invertebrates, all of which would have been nutritious. [7]
A fossil reveals how a now-extinct species of dugong was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by a crocodile and a tiger shark.
As a warm-blooded animal, the daily energy demands of Giraffatitan would have been enormous; it would probably have needed to eat more than 182 kilograms (400 lb) of food per day. If Giraffatitan was fully cold-blooded or was a passive bulk endotherm , it would have needed far less food to meet its daily energy needs.