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corythosaurus

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Noun1.corythosaurus - duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmetcorythosaurus - duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet
duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaur, hadrosaurus - any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic
genus Corythosaurus - genus of duck-billed dinosaurs of late Cretaceous


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When the ROM's Corythosaurus was mounted in 1932 at the entrance to the dinosaur gallery, this hadrosaur stood on its hind legs like a giant kangaroo, with its head almost touching the 17-foot (5-metre) ceiling and its tail drooping along the ground.
She lines up with Elvissauras - the king of rock - and more traditional Jurassic Park favourites like T Rex, Stegosaurus, Corythosaurus and Parasaurolophus.
Joel sent us his very realistic drawing of a Corythosaurus like the one that appeared in that issue.
 
 
 
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