Article: Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Correlated trends in the evolution of the plesiosaur locomotor ...
Paleobiology;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... threaded through the trunk of a turtle." Owing to this distinctive shape, plesiosaurs are among the more familiar of Mesozoic reptiles. This plesiosaur bauplan is derived relative to that of nothosaur-grade sauropterygians via the acquisition of a characteristic ...

Article: Digging down under: what's the real story on Australia's dinos?
Dig;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Antarctica. These dinosaurs are sometimes called "polar dinosaurs" because they inhabited cooler climates than most other Mesozoic reptiles. Some Australian dinosaurs seem to have inhabited specific areas; others roamed larger regions. Minmi was a small ...

Article: PROFESSOR PRAISES FEVER FOR DINOSAURS.(Local)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 26, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... Wednesday to Union College for its Founders Day Convocation to praise the dinosaur, not to bury him. Those lumbering Mesozoic reptiles - tyrannosaur, triceratops et al - may be long gone in the flesh from the landscape, but they are popping up these days ...

Article: Pterodactyls found to come from eggs
Xinhua News Agency;  January 6, 2005 ;     370 words ... ... University in east China' s Jiangsu Province. It remains controversial among scientists worldwide whether pterodactyls, Mesozoic reptiles capable of flight, were viviparous or oviparous. This is because scientists around the world haven't found any convincing ...

Dictionary definition: Cretaceous
A Dictionary of Biology;      340 words ... ... of greatest flooding in the Mesozoic. Angiosperm plants made their first appearance on land and in the early Cretaceous Mesozoic reptiles reached their peak. At the end of the period there was a mass extinction of the dinosaurs, flying reptiles, and ammonites ...

Article: New long-necked dinosaur discovered in Madagascar.
M2 Presswire;  August 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... prolific northern Madagascar dinosaur sites uncovered by the team of scientists continue to shed new and exciting light on Mesozoic reptiles." The new plant-eating sauropod ("Brontosaurus"-like) dinosaur was discovered in 1995 in northwestern Madgascar ...