dinosaur

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A large extinct reptile that lived millions of years ago.

• Children love learning about dinosaurs.
• The museum has a complete dinosaur skeleton.
• Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.
• Paleontologists recently unearthed fossilized dinosaur remains in Argentina that suggest these creatures exhibited complex social behaviors including cooperative hunting strategies.
• The debate over whether the dinosaur extinction resulted from an asteroid impact or prolonged volcanic activity continues to divide the scientific community.
• New imaging techniques allow researchers to reconstruct dinosaur locomotion patterns by analyzing bone density and muscle attachment points in fossilized specimens.

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A person or thing that is outdated or unable to adapt to change.

• His ideas are from the past—he's a dinosaur.
• That technology is a dinosaur now.
• They called him a dinosaur for refusing to use computers.

Eş anlamlılar: relic, fossil

Zıt anlamlılar: innovator, pioneer