duck-billed dinosaur
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noun
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Origin of duck-billed dinosaur
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When these results are combined with fossilized footprints, the overall appearance of this duck-billed dinosaur, long speculated about but never documented with this level of precision, becomes much clearer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
South Jersey achieved paleontological renown with the 1858 discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of the duck-billed dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii in a Haddonfield marl pit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2025
Some 67 million years ago, in what is now known as Slope County, North Dakota, an adolescent duck-billed dinosaur was killed and chewed up by various predators and scavengers.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2022
Scientists are not finished making discoveries about Dakota, a duck-billed dinosaur, and they recently unlocked a well-preserved foot, a forelimb and more of its tail from the stone encasing the fossil.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
From what little is known now, it is thought to have belonged to a hadrosaur, a large duck-billed dinosaur.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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