carpel
carpel Female reproductive part of a flowering plant. A carpel consists of a
stigma, a
style and an
ovary. A group of carpels make up the
gynoecium, the complete female reproductive structure within a flower.
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APATOSAURUS DISPLAY GOES ON SABBATICAL FROM UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/20/2007; 700+ words
; ...foot-long fossil display of the Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) a sauropod dinosaur...Knight did a wonderful job of putting the Apatosaurus together based on the resources and...of Woodland Park, Colo., took the Apatosaurus display apart. Treibold is a professional...
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I'm a hungry apatosaurus
Magazine article from: Turtle Magazine for Preschool Kids; 1/1/1999; ; 498 words
; ...Mom. "No," said Eric. "I'm an apatosaurus, because I like to eat plants." Eric...said. "I need plants. I'm a hungry apatosaurus." "Broccoli is a plant," said Mom...t a plant," said Mom. "Would an apatosaurus eat chicken?" "No, silly," said...
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I'M A HUNGRY APATOSAURUS
Magazine article from: Turtle Magazine for Preschool Kids; 3/1/2007; ; 510 words
; ...t do that," said Eric. "I'm an apatosaurus. I like to eat plants." Eric sat...Give me plants. I'm a hungry apatosaurus." "Oh, there are some plants on...t a plant," said Mom. "Would an apatosaurus eat chicken?" "No, silly," said...
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Dinosaur couldn't lift its head: Apatosaurus a ground grazer, not tree browser, study shows
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 4/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...types of dinosaurs, Diplodocus and Apatosaurus, to discover how well the huge animals were able to move. Apatosaurus was once called Brontosaurus and...long necks and small heads. The Apatosaurus, for instance, is thought to have...
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Snappy Dinosaur Tails.(paleontologists theorize Apatosaurus used its tail to communicate)
Magazine article from: Odyssey; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...eating) dinosaurs with enormously long tails like that of Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus) used them not as defense mechanisms...sister as you're doing the dishes. The 25-meter-long Apatosaurus had a big bull-whip tail roughly a meter wide at its base...
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The apatosaurus rears its massive head...again.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 2/26/2002; 442 words
; ...exhibition at Victoria's Scienceworks. The "Terrorsaurus" exhibition features the mechanic recreation of the 30-tonne apatosaurus, one of the many dinosaurs which roamed the North-Western American continent 140 million years ago. At just 24 years...
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Please don't feed the Apatosaurus
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/8/1988; 209 words
; ((PHOTO CAPTION))
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Tribology's favorite dinosaur
Magazine article from: Tribology & Lubrication Technology; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Apatosaurus has come to symbolize the geological...lubrication and tribology should be the Apatosaurus. I say this because our industry friends...Sinclair Oil Co. have had that cute green Apatosaurus named Dino as their logo and mascot...
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`Brontosaurus' Takes a Licking;Postal Service Delivers a Controversy With Unscientific Stamp
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/18/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...7-year-old can attest, it is an Apatosaurus. What's more, the Postal Service...and wrong-headed thinking about the apatosaurus in particular. "The Smithsonian Institution...and 1879. The first fossil he named Apatosaurus. The second he called Brontosaurus...
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ROBOTICS BRING DINOSAURS TO LIFE
Magazine article from: USA Today; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...software application that shows how an Apatosaurus moved-help tell the dramatic story...foot-long biomechanical model of an Apatosaurus skeleton, and an ingenious lighting...with a 3-D engineering model of an Apatosaurus skeleton (the fabrication of which...
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Apatosaurus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Apatosaurus , [Gr.,=deceptive lizard], quadruped...weigh up to 30 tons (27 metric tons). Apatosaurus was called Brontosaurus [Gr.,=thunder...named a specimen he uncovered in 1877 Apatosaurus ajax. Marsh discovered parts of a second...
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apatosaur
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...apitōˈsôrəs / (also apatosaurus / -ˈsôrəs / ) • n. a huge herbivorous dinosaur (genus Apatosaurus , infraorder Sauropoda, order Saurischia) of the late Jurassic...
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Jurassic
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...The largest of all dinosaurs, the plant-eating sauropods, also developed during the Jurassic. The sauropods include Apatosaurus (formerly called Brontosaurus), Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Seismosaurus, and Suprasaurus. These animals were quadrupeds...
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Diplodocus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...presumably churned and broke up food fibers and mixed in digestive fluids. A huge saurischian sauropods, Diplodocus could reach a length of nearly 90 ft (27 m) but was more slender and lighter in weight than the related Apatosaurus .
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Reptiles
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...dinosaurs, which included immense, ferocious predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex , and enormously large herbivores such as Apatosaurus . The first reptiles known in the fossil record occurred about 340 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period...
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