How to Use hadrosaur in a Sentence

hadrosaur

noun
  • The annoying impulse repeats itself over and over again through the young hadrosaur’s body.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
  • While Kobayashi has discovered new species of hadrosaurs, he was not involved in the new research.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In cooler months, a hadrosaur might chaw rotten logs to get their daily fiber—with mushrooms and insects adding a little protein to the mix.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
  • To find an answer, Brown turned to hadrosaurs such as Corythosaurus, plant-eaters from about 70 million years ago.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The fossils show that the hadrosaur likely grew to be more than 35 feet long and weighed as much as 9 tons, according to the release.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Edmontosaurs were probably pretty striking to look at with a long, low skull and one of the most prominent duck-bill snouts of any hadrosaur.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The object is a just a scant shard of cartilage from the skull of a baby hadrosaur called Hypacrosaurus that perished more than 70 million years ago.
    — Riley Black, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Others turn out to be familiar—a duckbill dinosaur previously thought to be a new species has turned out to be Edmontosaurus, a wide-ranging hadrosaur found elsewhere.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The crew has been working at the site for about two months and uncovered between 30 and 50 bones that came from a single young hadrosaur that was about three or four years old, according to the statement.
    — David Williams, CNN, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Studies of dinosaur growth have indicated that hadrosaurs rapidly packed on the pounds as a defense against carnivores, so an adult hadrosaur represents the size threshold when potential lunch became too much of a bother.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • In a Cretaceous Research study, paleontologists described a new species of hadrosaur found in Morocco.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The authors of a new study published Tuesday in the journal iScience believe the injuries occurred during mating — and they could be used to indicate which fossils belong to female hadrosaurs.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • How to hunt proteins in dinosaur fossils Mary Schweitzer and her colleagues first remove minerals from fossils such as a hadrosaur femur, leaving organic material behind.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Look for the world's largest giant squid fossil, a prehistoric turtle the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and a rare 67 million-year-old mummified hadrosaur with skin and scales visible.
    — Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • The bones of paddlefish and sturgeons who died in the Chicxulub Impact indicated that the asteroid struck in the spring, and a hadrosaur in Blagoveshchensk was presumed to have broken its ulna while eating leaves or mating.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Richard Antonucci of Boca Raton examined a display of real fossils, including a hadrosaur tibia from 75 million years ago that was discovered in Montana.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2019

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