Meaning of gorgosaurus | Babel Free

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A tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur of the genus Gorgosaurus that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago.

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“No. 1 is in the Stone age, the time when man went around dressed in a bearskin and threw rocks at prehistoric monsters called Ankylosauri, Gorgosauri or Triceratops.”

“The Gorgosaurus is notable for its ability to maintain⟳ a high speed⟳ chase⟳ for some distance, unlike the Tyrannosaurus or Allosaurus. Also, it can bound for its full length in an attack leap⟳! Like⟳ Allosaurus, Gorgosaurus is terribly jealous of its territory, but it will permit⟳ a female to range in its territory and often forms a mated pair hunting team for the spring⟳ and summer. Typical ranges are the same as that of the Allosaurus, but Gorgosauri will also enter⟳ swamps, sticking to the shallows and to the dry land⟳ of the mounds dotting swamps.”

“Having seen how quickly and savagely the gorgosauri and the allosaurus had devastated the exploration team, Ian and Rebecca had a fearful respect⟳ for the meat-eating species.”

“Gorgosauri are carnivores, usually hungry, and may attack anything encountered unless they have⟳ just eaten a very large meal.”

“Henry Beissel asks in “First Canto: Landscape,” “What artist dare raise⟳ his vision from the dead/centre of creation against this dinosaur indifference?” (CN, 7). Mention⟳ of dinosaurs, pterodactyls and gorgosauruses in particular, recurs in the Tenth and Eleventh Cantos as part of his geological imagery (CN, 45-55).”

“Hadrosaurs — duck-billed, plant-eating creatures weighing up to 3,600 kilograms — were the most common dinosaurs in what is now the park⟳. The shallow water at the sea’s edge suited their partially webbed feet and provided vegetation for their diet. The water also served as a refuge from the giant meat-eating gorgosauruses that preyed on them.”

“In this context, the figments of Lesje’s imagination — the visions of gorgosauruses, pterodactyls, and iguanodons — function at the point⟳ of suture as the seamlike line of junction between her Imaginary existence and a symbolic one.”

“I think⟳ you have⟳ just killed three Gorgosauri or Gorgasaurus,^([sic]) whichever is grammatically correct⟳. They are like⟳ us, misplaced in time. We saw⟳ one on the disk Fanny made with the first exploration ship. We were afraid they would come⟳ over the wall one day. They should have⟳ been extinct sixty-five million years ago.”

“In 1997, the amateur fossil hunters Cliff and Sandy Linster, digging near Chorteau, Montana, unearthed the skeleton of a dinosaur – a 72-million-year-old female gorgosaurus. Gorgosauruses are not particularly rare, but this one had an interesting quirk. Rattling around inside its skull was a bone ball. It was an extraskeletal osteosarcoma – a bone tumour – which would have⟳ encroached on its cerebellum and its brainstem.”

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