{"id":5140,"date":"2022-12-02T02:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:00:50","slug":"natovenator-polydontus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/natovenator-polydontus\/","title":{"rendered":"Natovenator polydontus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is Natovenator polydontus?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The dinosaur, called Natovenator polydontus<\/strong>, lived about 72 million years ago during the <strong>Cretaceous Period<\/strong> and was <strong>built like a diving bird with a streamlined body<\/strong> while possessing a goose-like elongated neck and a long flattened snout with a mouth bearing more than 100 small teeth. It was almost covered in feathers.<\/li>\n<li>While it was a cousin of <strong>speedy little predator Velociraptor<\/strong>, Natovenator was adapted to a <strong>semi-aquatic lifestyle in a freshwater ecosystem<\/strong>, perhaps floating on rivers and lakes, paddling with its front limbs, and using its flexible neck to catch fish and insects or diving underwater to capture its prey.<\/li>\n<li>Natovenator is <strong>part of the dinosaur group called theropods<\/strong> \u2013 sharing traits including <strong>bipedalism<\/strong> \u2013 best known for large meat-eaters including Tyrannosaurus, Tarbosaurus and Giganotosaurus.<\/li>\n<li>But the <strong>theropods, many of which were feathered<\/strong>, branched out in unusual directions with examples such as long-clawed ground sloth-like Therizinosaurus, ostrich-like Struthiomimus, termite-eating Mononykus and the entire bird lineage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is a theropod in biology?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The theropod (meaning &#8220;beast-footed&#8221;) dinosaurs are a diverse group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs which include the largest terrestrial carnivores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/new-dinosaur-natovenator-polydontus-cretaceous-period-8301740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natovenator polydontus was a dinosaur of Cretaceous period adapted to semi-aquatic lifestyle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}