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Eleanor Kish, who specializes in dinosaur books and museum murals, is so scrupulous that she duplicated the precise color of the sand in which a skeleton of Tenontosaurus was found for the dappled camouflage pattern of its skin.
New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008
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The medullary bones examined by Werning and Lee came from the meat-eater Allosaurus and the plant-eater Tenontosaurus.
Archive 2008-01-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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The medullary bones examined by Werning and Lee came from the meat-eater Allosaurus and the plant-eater Tenontosaurus.
Teenage pregnancy in dinosaurs ReBecca Foster 2008
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According to the fossil record, packs of velociraptors were capable of bringing down animals that weighed a thousand pounds, like Tenontosaurus, which could run as fast as a horse.
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991
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Killing such a large animal would have required cooperation, and this conjecture - along with the common association between the two species - fuelled the idea that packs of Deinonychus often pounced upon poor Tenontosaurus.
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In 2007 palaeontologists Brian Roach and Daniel Brinkman argued that the Tenontosaurus kill sites Ostrom cited represented bloody scrambles where individual Deinonychus scrapped over feeding rights.
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Tenontosaurus at a quarry excavated by Ostrom and his colleagues, and numerous Deinonychus teeth were discovered among the remains of the same prey at fourteen other sites.
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In Ostrom's view, the three partial Deinonychus skeletons that inspired his hypothesis were individuals that were killed while bringing down the Tenontosaurus, but Roach and Brinkman argued that the three were slaughtered by other Deinonychus during competition for the carcass.
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Where Tenontosaurus bones were found, traces of Deinonychus frequently turned up.
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Despite lacking armour or spikes, an 8-metre adult Tenontosaurus would have been hefty enough to break the bones of an attacker.
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