How to Use hadrosaur in a Sentence

hadrosaur

noun

• In March, a study was published that looked at the fossilized teeth of a hadrosaur and concluded that its journeys were short, roughly 50 miles.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2020
• The research looked at fossilized teeth of a hadrosaur and concluded that its journeys were short, roughly 50 miles.
  — Fox News, 5 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 June 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
• 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 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
• Collectively, the sequences showed the purported hadrosaur collagen was more closely related to T. rex and birds than to modern reptiles.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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 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
• 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