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  • s  having a beak resembling that of a duck
    a duck-billed dinosaur

  • During a career that has taken him from Ellesmere Island to Patagonia, he has explored the social patterns of huge meat-eating dinosaurs, identified two duck-billed dinosaurs .
  • The egg-filled nests belonged to hadrosaurs -- duck-billed dinosaurs -- which had apparently built vast rookeries much the way social birds like penguins do.
  • For the first time ever, a duck-billed platypus was born in captivity.
News & Articles

  • From Tom Paine to Glenn Greenwald, we need partisan journalism
    By Jack Shafer (Reuters) - I would sooner engage you in a week-long debate over which taxonomical subdivision the duck-billed platypus belongs to then spend a moment arguing whether Glenn Greenwald is a journalist or not, or whether an activist can be a journalist, or whether a journalist can be an activist, or how suspicious we should be of partisans in the newsroom. It's not that those ...
    July 17, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Crunch! T. rex tooth found in dino tailbone
    Talk about battle scars. A broken tooth lodged in the fused tail vertebrae of a hadrosaur is evidence of a dinnertime face-off between Tyrannosaurus rex and the duck-billed dinosaur. But this time, the hunter went hungry, and the hadrosaur carried off a trophy. "T.
    July 16, 2013 - NBC NEWS
  • T. rex tooth found in dino tail
    Talk about battle scars. A broken tooth lodged in the fused tail vertebrae of a hadrosaur is evidence of a dinnertime face-off between Tyrannosaurus rex and the duck-billed dinosaur. But this time, the hunter went hungry, and the hadrosaur carried off a trophy.
    July 16, 2013 - MSN
Quotes

  • Spencer G. Lucas in Discovery News
    Looking at their pictures I'd say yeah, looks like duck-billed dinosaur skin,said paleontologist Spencer Lucas of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, referring to the common name for hadrosaurs. "The problem is they don't...

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