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Posts treating: "apex predator"

Monday, 02 March 2015

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Sauropods In The Threropod Diet 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [2015-03-02 01:58:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info

 Cretaceous
North America In North America in the Jurassic period,a fierce hunter attacked Camarasaurus supremus,Apatosaurus ajax,and Diplodocus halloram,Allosaurus fragilis.This 1.5 ton theropod was the apex predator of North America and possibly Europe. Later in the early Cretaceous period, there was a bigger predator that hunted Sauroposeidon,Acrocanthosaurus atokensis.This 4.5 ton predator could SLAUGHTER a Sauroposeidon! In the Late Cretaceous only

Crocodiles of the World 

The Disillusioned Taxonomist [2011-10-20 20:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (659 visits) info
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As a birthday treat to myself this year, on the nineteenth of September I made a trip to Crocodiles of the World in Crawley, a town just outside of Oxford in the Cotswold Hills. When I first heard about this place, about a month before, I was so excited to visit that I booked a place on a private tour for that day, knowing that I’d be passing through the area en route back to London from Gloucestershire. It’s a small facility that houses twelve species of crocodilian and a small number of [...]

Warm-Blooded Sea Monsters of the Mesozoic 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2010-06-14 20:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (15 visits) info

 Mesozoic
Origami Plesiosaurus by Oriholic Jared, via Flickr.A new study published in Science suggests that the great predators of Mesozoic seas, the plesiosaurs, icthyosaurs, and mosasaurs, maintained an average body temperature around 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This conclusion was achieved by studying the oxygen isotopes in their teeth; fish from the mesozoic and today - all cold-blooded, of course - show variation in their oxygen isotopes based on the temperature of water they live in. The marine [...]

The Diet of Giant Dino-Eating Crocs 

Palaeoblog [2010-03-28 18:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (42 visits) info
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A Deinosuchus lunges at an Albertosaurus in an artist's conception.Illustration by Raul D. Martin, National Geographic StockRock-hard feces and oddly bitten bones are helping to flesh out one of the biggest crocs of prehistory, researchers say."We're pretty sure it was the apex predator in this region," said Samantha Harrell, an undergraduate at Columbus State University in Georgia, who

Face-to-Face With a Leopard Seal 

Laelaps [2010-02-10 20:40:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (10 visits) info
As the snow continues to pile up outside, I can't help but think of polar predators. There are animals that live and hunt in the conditions that are keeping me inside today, and one of my favorites is the leopard seal. An apex predator in its Antarctic home, the leopard seal is an enormous pinniped that specializes in hunting penguins and other seals. Getting into the water with one is not something to be done on a whim, but as described by photographer Paul Nicklen, particularly friendly [...]
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