Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some players already seem to be distancing themselves from the lame-duck Restic. "This season will pretty much be for ourselves," another player said...
...dental analyses to determine how the advent and proliferation of flowering plants during the early Cretaceous might have influenced population levels of large, plant-eating dinosaurs. There is some evidence, he says, that the spread of flowering plants hurt large-bodied dinosaurs like sauropods and helped the somewhat smaller duck-billed and horned dinosaurs. When flowering plants began to dominate the landscape in the mid-Cretaceous, they edged out the conifers, tree ferns and other plants that the long-established sauropods depended on. The smaller vegetarians, which evolved much later, had not become so set in their eating habits...
...Robert Bakker is concerned. Long- haired, bearded and strongly opinionated, free-lance paleontologist Bakker has been the bad boy of the field for years, and does not suffer fools gladly. "There are still a few of my colleagues who think, 'If it walks like a duck, breathes like a duck and grows like a duck, it must be a turtle...
...when Jack Horner happened upon 14 rocky nests in an eastern Montana excavation that was later dubbed Egg Mountain, another dinosaur myth bit the dust. The egg-filled nests belonged to hadrosaurs -- duck-billed dinosaurs -- which had apparently built vast rookeries much the way social birds like penguins do. Though dinosaurs were never thought to be especially cuddly or caring, these creatures clearly nurtured their young, probably feeding them by mouth like baby birds until they were strong enough to leave the nest. Horner and his colleagues named the species Maiasaura -- Greek for "Good Mother Lizard...
Whatever the reason, says Horner, "we have pretty good evidence that all duck-billed dinosaurs were nest-bound and nurturing. We also see a lot of herding behavior among hadrosaurs as well as ceratopsians," a group that includes Triceratops. In fact, claims Horner, "most of the herbivores cared for their young...