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  Baryonyx- Enchanted Learning Software
Baryonyx was a theropod, whose intelligence (as measured by the relative brain to body weight, or EQ) was high among the dinosaurs.
Baryonyx was found in 1983 in a clay pit in Surrey, England, by the British amateur fossil hunter William Walker.
Baryonyx was an early Cretaceous Saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaur.
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Baryonyx.shtml   (464 words)

  
 DINOSAURS: Family Baronychidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Baryonyx is a recently discovered dinosaur that was in 1983 by an amateur fossil hunter, in Sussex, England, that appears to have been especially well suited for fishing, if so, it is the only known fishing dinosaur (Not until Spinosaurus was excavated).
Baryonyx's nostrils were set back from the tip of its long, narrow, crocodile-like snout, perhaps so it could stick its nose underwater and still breathe.
Baryonyx, meaning 'heavy claw', takes its name from the two huge, curved claws, more than a foot long, that seem to have been attached to its front feet, where they would be handy for spearing fish.
www.angelfire.com /indie/DINOSAURS/11baronychidae.htm   (215 words)

  
 Dinosaur names dinosaur pictures dinosaur fossil dinosaur extinction theories dinosaur skeletons dinosaur anatomy ...
Baryonyx ("heavy claw") is a large, carnivorous dinosaur exposed in clay pits just south of Dorking, England.
Baryonyx was about 8 to 10 m long (26 to 33 ft), and around 5 m (16 ft) tall.
It is speculated that Baryonyx would sit on a riverbank, sleeping on its powerful front legs, and then sweep fish from the river with its powerful striking claw.
www.rareresource.com /baryonyx.htm   (702 words)

  
 Wildlife -- Baryonyx
Baryonyx provides a good example of the difficulties scientists have when studying large fossil skeletons.
Baryonyx was not fully extracted until 1991, so scientists have not yet reached final conclusions about the dinosaur.
Baryonyx in tern may have been preyed upon by larger predatory dinosaurs when it was on land.
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 DISAPPEARANCE-Baryonyx
Baryonyx ('heavy claw') takes its name from its murderously large and hook-like thumb-claws.
Baryonyx's homeland was the warm floodplain that stretched from where London now stands, south into France and Belgium.
Another possibility is that Baryonyx scavenged meat from the corpses of dinosaurs it found already dead, probing deep inside the carcasses with its long, narrow, sharp-toothed jaws.
library.thinkquest.org /26615/baryonyxtext.htm   (273 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Dinosaurs of The Isle of Wight - Theropods
Baryonyx, or 'heavy claw', is a large theropod with an elongate skull, similar in appearance to that of a crocodile.
Baryonyx had a large number of teeth, 32 in each lower jaw and 7 in each premaxilla.
The shape of the teeth and their number suggests that Baryonyx was a fish eater.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A664643   (1113 words)

  
 Baryonyx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baryonyx /bæ.riː'ɒn.ɪks/ meaning "heavy claw", referring to its large claw (Greek barus meaning 'heavy' and onyx meaning 'claw' or 'nail') was a carnivorous dinosaur discovered in clay pits just south of Dorking, England, and northern Spain.
The major part of the skeleton of a juvenile specimen was found in England, while the Spanish fossils consist mainly of a partial skull and some fossil tracks.
Baryonyx was about 8 to 10 m long (26 to 33 ft), and around 3.6 m (12 ft) tall.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baryonyx   (808 words)

  
 abcd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Baryonyx is one of the best dinosaur know for fishing.
Baryonyx's nostrils were crocodile-like snout, we believe it could stick its nose underwater and still breathe.
Another piece of evidence for Baryonyx's fishy diet is that scientists have found the remains of a fish food where its stomach would have been.
www.tqnyc.org /NYC040732/abcd.htm   (184 words)

  
 Lizard hipped-I,Dinosaurs acrocanthosaurus albertosaurus allosaurus baryonyx carcharodontosaurus.
Baryonyx means heavy claw was an unusual theropod with huge 1-foot (30.5-cm) long claws on its hands, and long, narrow, crocodile-like jaws with 96 small, serrated teeth (this is 1.5 times the number of teeth that most other theropods had).
Baryonyx had a long, straight neck (unlike other theropods, which had s-shaped necks) and a long tail.
Its low-slung body was supported by 2 large rear legs and 2 slightly smaller arms.
www.rareresource.com /theropods.htm   (695 words)

  
 Baryonyx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Baryonyx is a recently discovered dinosaur that appears to have been especially well suited for fishing.
Because of its long front legs, scientists believe Baryonyx may have walked part of the time on all four legs.
Baryonyx was discovered in 1983 by an amateur fossil hunter in Sussex, England, and is related to the Spinosaurus.
www.cbv.ns.ca /marigold/history/dinosaurs/datafiles/baryonyx.html   (198 words)

  
 The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! Part 4 - EvoWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Baryonyx means “Heavy Claw” and is named to describe a massive claw that is growing on his first digit finger on each hand.
Another possible reason to why they made Baryonyx into the image and likeness of a dragon is because they assumed that it must have resemble horned dragons with arrow shaped heads as depicted in many Medieval art, especially those coming from England, France and other European countries.
Despite what is shown above, Baryonyx in fact never had dog-like ears, three or four horns on its crocodile-like face, a tail with an arrow like point at the end, an s-shaped neck (His neck is actually straight, not curved.), bat wings, and a fiery breath.
wiki.cotch.net /index.php/The_Great_Dinosaur_Mystery_Solved!_Part_4   (2295 words)

  
 Unexplained Mysteries :: The mother of all meat-eaters
Baryonyx remains were found in Ockley in 1983, and recent analysis has led to a reassessment of life in Britain 125 million years ago.
“The discovery of Baryonyx has led to the reinterpretation of a lot of remains in the rest of the world.“We’ve found many of the teeth finds going back to early Victorian times now turn out not to be crocodiles but this animal.
The sheer number of remains suggests that Baryonyx wasn’t as uncommon as we thought.” She was speaking on the eve of the opening today of an interactive exhibition, Dino Jaws, at the museum.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /viewnews.php?id=73373   (363 words)

  
 The Guild Companion: A Menagerie of Monsters
Like many of the meat-eating dinosaurs, Baryonyx walks on its hind legs and has shorter forelimbs; unlike many of the other similar dinosaurs, the clawed forelimbs of Baryonyx are far from useless.
Baryonyx lives in the deep jungle usually near sources of water, where it can hunt for aquatic prey or wait for terrestrial prey to come for a drink when they get thirsty.
Baryonyx is not a master tactician and will attack anything that it recognizes as food or a threat.
www.guildcompanion.com /scrolls/2005/apr/amenagerieofmonsters.html   (3052 words)

  
 Baryonyx
Baryonyx: dinosaur has means to be mother of all meat-eaters
“Baryonyx is probably the ancestor of the biggest meat-eating dinosaur but we can’t be sure,” said Angela Milner, of the museum, who helped to excavate and study the remains.
There is also a virtual fossil dig, animatronic dinosaurs to show how body design was suited to diet, and remains such as copralites — fossilised faeces — for children to examine.
www.meta-religion.com /Zoology/Exctinct/baryonyx.htm   (493 words)

  
 Baryonyx - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Baryonyx ("garra pesada") es un gran dinosaurio carnívoro descubierto en depósitos arcillosos al sur de Dorking (Inglaterra) y el norte de España.
Baryonyx medía entre 8 y 10 metros de largo y unos 5 de alto.
Se ha especulado que Baryonyx podría permanecer en las orillas, apoyado sobre sus poderosas patas delanteras, y golpeando entonces los peces con la llamativa y potente garra curva que tenía en cada mano para luego capturarlos al vuelo con sus largas mandíbulas.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baryonyx   (913 words)

  
 The Dinosaur Farm Museum
Baryonyx is unusual among dinosaurs in that it caught and ate fish.
Scientists think this because the acid-etched bones of a fish called Lepidotes was found among its skeleton.
Baryonyx is probably the ancestor of Spinosaurus (Africa), the star of "Jurassic Park III".
www.dinosaur-farm.co.uk /pages/dinoview/baryonyx.html   (126 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [5 More Dead]
Baryonyx, as well as appearing in some films and doing 3-D art on the side, also had a short stint as bass player with Elijah Blue's band Deadsy.
Extremely versatile, vocalist Baryonyx can be ranting with rage one moment and then crooning hypnotic lullabies next (psychedelic flavored of course).
Their songs are an unpredictable ride of climaxes -- beats and guitars kicking in so sudden and hard even the most reserved person in the audience will eventually have their arms in the air cheering.....
www.dragoncon.org /people/fivemo.html   (440 words)

  
 Baryonyx - Natural History Museum
Current research suggests that Baryonyx was a large and carnivorous creature of average speed...according to your answers so are you!
The most unusual feature of Baryonyx was its long, narrow, crocodile-like jaws, which were filled with conical shaped teeth.
Fish scales in Baryonyx fossils prove they ate fish that were about one metre long.
www.nhm.ac.uk /kids-only/fun-games/what-dinosaur-are-you/baryonyx.html   (88 words)

  
 The Megalosauria
But now that the postcranial anatomy of spinosaurids are a lot better known than back in the mid-1980s, it seems that there is not much in the rest of the skeleton to link spinosaurids and coelophysoids.
There is little to distinguish Suchomimus from Baryonyx and Cristatusaurus, and it is likely that all three belong to the same genus (Baryonyx).
Charig, A J and Milner A C. Baryonyx walkeri, a fish-eating dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey.
www.kheper.net /evolution/dinosauria/Megalosauria.htm   (2864 words)

  
 Baryonyx Fact Sheet - EnchantedLearning.com
Carnivore (meat-eater) A fossilized Baryonyx was found with a fossilized meal in its stomach; this stomach contained fish scales, fish bones, and some partially digested bones of a young Iguanodon.
Baryonyx had huge 1-foot (30.5-cm) long claws on its hands (hence its name).
It had long, narrow, crocodile-like jaws with 96 small, serrated teeth (this is 1.5 times the number of teeth that most other theropods had).
www.zoomschool.com /subjects/dinosaurs/facts/Baryonyx   (338 words)

  
 Baryonyx from How to Get a Head Without Hunting
Baryonyx lived in Europe and Africa in the Early Cretaceous period (144 to 120 million years ago).
Because of this, scientists think that baryonyx probably ate fish, prowling ancient rivers and using its long neck to help it see its prey from above the water.
The first baryonyx fossils were found quite recently, in 1983.
www.animalhead.com /baryonyx.html   (249 words)

  
 A Long-Snouted Predatory Dinosaur from Africa and the Evolution of Spinosaurids -- Sereno et al. 282 (5392): 1298 -- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The baryonychines Suchominus and Baryonyx are distinct (16,
The authors state that the material differs from Baryonyx walkeri by the "brevirostrine condition of premaxilla." However, no distinguishing features or proportions are apparent to us or to previous authors (13), who attributed the premaxillae to an indeterminate species of Baryonyx.
Three diastemata are present in the upper rosette (between teeth 3 and 4, between teeth 5 and 6, and between tooth 7 and the maxillary teeth).
www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/282/5392/1298   (3115 words)

  
 Arts-Letters.com | Jurassic Art - Flex Art | Baryonyx
Discovered in southern England, Baronyx had a huge curved claw over 12 inches in length on each hand.
Its long narrow jaws were equipped with small pointed teeth, twice as many as a theropod would normally have, which leads many to think that Baryonyx was a fisher.
It might have waded in shallow water to spear fish with its claws.
www.arts-letters.com /dino/flexart_baryonyx.html   (60 words)

  
 Baryonyx page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The first discovery of Baryonyx walkeri was made by amateur fossil hunter William Walker in a Surrey claypit in 1983.
In December 1997, however, a store of old fossils in the Isle of Wight Museum yielded a forearm of a Baryonyx.
These remains had apparently been unearthed decades earlier on the southwest coast of the island, and had sat in a box in Carisbrooke Castle for a long time.
www.dinohunters.com /History/Baryonx.htm   (113 words)

  
 The Dinosauria by DinosØMP
Spinosaurids differ from the other theropods by unserrated teeth, elongated skulls, and short arms and feet.
Baryonyx has for a long time been the best known of this group, then Suchomimus
Baryonyx and Suchomimus are both known to have long slender skulls, with a row of
members.tripod.com /the_dinosauria/spinosauria.html   (255 words)

  
 Image: Comparison of the spinosaurids Suchomimus and Baryonyx [The Dinosauricon]
Comparison between Suchomimus tenerensis (top) and Baryonyx walkeri (bottom), set to the same scale.
These two taxa may be synonymous, and are based on specimens that are not adult.
Cristatusaurus lapparenti (not shown) had jaws almost half the size of Baryonyx walkeri's, based on the premaxillae.
dino.lm.com /images/display.php?id=2356   (56 words)

  
 Dan's JP3 Page
In the proto-logo (even though it has the T-Rex body) we are given this new head and arms which clearly make it look like a Baryonyx or Suchomimus, plus it does not have the sail that is familiar to the official logo.
My point is that of all things that they could have left out in the proto-logo, they left out the sail, then in the official one we get a sail.
If it were Baryonyx, there would stll be the large claws on the hand.
www.dansjp3page.com /comments.asp?id=111   (3271 words)

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