Synonyms for Jurassic
dʒʊˈræs ɪk

Princeton's WordNet

1. Jurassic, Jurassic period(adj)

   from 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers

2. Jurassic(adj)

   of or relating to or denoting the second period of the Mesozoic era

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1. Tetsuto Miyashita:

   Qijianglong shows that long-necked dinosaurs diversified in unique ways in Asia during Jurassic times -- something very special was going on in that continent, nowhere else we can find dinosaurs with longer necks than those in China. The new dinosaur tells us that these extreme species thrived in isolation from the rest of the world.

2. Robert Reisz:

   When we see dinosaurs in popular culture, such as in Jurassic Park, we see them depicted with big teeth sticking out of their mouths.

3. Susannah Maidment:

   Although we have found dense internal structures that we have interpreted as nuclei in our cells, and the cells we found appear to preserve original components of blood, there is no evidence of any organelles or DNA within the nuclei, but even if one was to find some fragments of DNA, we would not be able to reconstruct a dinosaur 'Jurassic Park-style' because we would need the complete genome to figure out where the holes in the DNA are.

4. Professor Darren Griffin:

   We are not going to have Jurassic Park anytime soon.

5. Cindy Howells:

   We know this dinosaur is (was born) 200 million years ago, to within half a million years or so, the rocks down here we've been studying for quite a long time now and we can do direct comparisons with the ages of rocks in Austria, which is where the transition between the Triassic and the Jurassic boundaries is precisely located.

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