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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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Dinosaurs living together
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-living-together/Did dinosaurs live on their own or in groups? There is good evidence that many did form social groups. Plant-eaters would have found safety in numbers, while predators may have hunted in packs and benefited from co-operation.
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Dinosaur lifecycles: from go to woe
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaur-lifecycles/From birth to growth and death, the fossil record preserves fascinating hints about the lifecycle of a dinosaur.
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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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