Word: strithiom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their size (a brontosaur, for example, weighed around 30 tons); a dinosaur whose body temperature dropped just one degree below the warmth necessary for it to be active would have to bask in the sun for at least several hours to bring it back to normal. Thus, says Desmond, Strithiom-imus, the "ostrich dinosaur," could not have hit the 50 m.p.h. speeds it was said to have attained if it had a physiology comparable with that of a modern-day lizard. The Tyrannosaurus could not have engaged in its earth-shaking battles with the rhinocerine Triceratops unless...
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