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Dinosaurs on the attack
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-on-the-attack/The ability to overpower another animal requires a combination of strength, speed, balance and weaponry. Most theropods relied on such skills and assets to find food, although some appeared to have adapted to life as filter-feeders or plant-eaters.
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Defence and signalling
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/life-among-the-plants/It sounds like a fancy dress party gone wrong: horns, dome-heads, crests, frills, noise, head-butting and rivalry. But they are really about using your head and some plant-eating dinosaurs excelled at it.
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Dinosaur senses
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaur-senses/Both plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs needed their senses to find food. How do you search for tasty plants to eat while remaining aware of any stalking predators? How do you find your plant-eating prey when they may be camouflaged or in hiding?
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Carnivore teeth and diet
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/meat-eating-dinosaurs/These are the sharp-toothed, ferocious meat-eating dinosaurs of popular imagination - the ultimate predators built purely to kill. Or are they? Collectively known as theropods, they range from bus-sized to chicken-sized.
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Pyroclastic processes and materials
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/pyroclastic-processes-and-materials/Pyroclastic means 'fire broken' and is the term for rocks formed from fragments produced by volcanic explosions.
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Dinosaur - Qantassaurus intrepidus
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/qantassaurus-intrepidus/Qantassaurus intrepidus, named after the Australian airline Qantas, was a small ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria.
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Dinosaur - Xiongguanlong baimoensis
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/xiongguanlong-baimoensis/Xiongguanlong means ‘dragon from Xiong Guan’ in Mandarin, and baimoensis is from the Mandarin for ‘white ghost’, referring to the ‘White Ghost Castle’ formation near the fossil site. This meat-eater was an early tyrannosaur that grew to about 5 metres long.
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Dinosaur - Guanlong wucaii
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/guanlong-wucaii/Named from the Chinese words guan, meaning 'crown', and long, meaning 'dragon', in reference to its flashy head-crest, the most elaborate of any known theropod dinosaur.
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Dinosaur - Eotyrannus lengi
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/eotyrannus-lengi/The relatively small tyrannosaur Eotyrannus lived about 60 million years before its more famous relative Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Dinosaur - Alioramus altai
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/alioramus-altai/Alioramus means ‘other [evolutionary] branch’ in Latin. The species name altai refers to the Altai Mountains, near the fossil site where the species was first found. This species is one of the smallest of the subfamily Tyrannosaurinae, and was about half the size of the closely-related Tyrannosaurus
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