duck-billed dinosaur
noun
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or less commonly duckbill dinosaur
: any of various herbivorous dinosaurs (family Hadrosauridae) of the Late Cretaceous having the jaw elongated into a snout that resembles a beak : hadrosaur
Fossils of a duck-billed dinosaur have turned up in Antarctica, recalling a time 66 million years ago when the now-frozen continent bore forests and a bountiful ecosystem.—
Richard Monastersky
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In the 1980s, Bruce Stinchcomb, a paleontology student studying Gilmore and Stewart's, analyzed the old bones and identified them as belonging to a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, per CNN.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
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Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
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“Duck-billed dinosaur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duck-billed%20dinosaur. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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