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One of the prime fossil exhibits in the Natural History Museum in London is a heavy-clawed dinosaur called Baryonyx walkeri which was unearthed in a clay pit near Dorking in Surrey.
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Bristol University | News from the University | Baryonyx: An unusual British dinosaur has been shown to have a skull that functioned like a fish-eating crocodile, despite looking like a dinosaur.
Croc Update (Prehistoric Edition) Bill Crider 2008
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Dr Emily Rayfield at the University of Bristol used computer modelling techniques – more commonly used to discover how a car bonnet buckles during a crash – to show that while Baryonyx was eating, its skull bent and stretched in the same way as the skull of the Indian fish-eating gharial – a crocodile with long, narrow jaws.
Croc Update (Prehistoric Edition) Bill Crider 2008
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In 1983, amateur palaeontologist William Walker discovered Baryonyx walkeri in the Weald Clay of Ockley, a specimen that proved to be a ‘Rosetta stone’ for the interpretation of a hitherto enigmatic theropod group, the spinosaurids.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Baryonyx specimens have since been discovered in the Hastings Beds Group and in the Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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So many fantastic and terrifying dinosaurs have been found - dromaeosaurs with double sickle-claws (Balaur), Allosaurus-cousins with sail backs (Concavenator), crocodile-snouted hunters (Baryonyx), and others - that the I think the show's creators would have done better to draw inspiration from actual dinosaurs rather than trying to dress up a Deinonychus.
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Other dinosaurs in Dinosaurs Alive! will include the vicious Tyrannosaurus Rex, Irratator, Baryonyx and Spinosaurus, the largest of all known carnivorous dinosaurs.
unknown title 2011
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Baryonyx walkeri, from the spinosaur family, had a long, crocodile-like skull littered with iconic cone-shaped teeth.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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Evidence of fish-eating behaviour came with the discovery of partially digested fish scales inside the fossilized gut contents within a Baryonyx skeleton unearthed in England in
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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Evidence of fish-eating behaviour came with the discovery of partially digested fish scales inside the fossilized gut contents within a Baryonyx skeleton unearthed in England in
Analysis 2010
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