The evidence garnered by researchers proved that massive carnivorous dinosaurs like theropods thrived in polar environments. Theropod translated to 'wild beast foot' in Greek who walked on two ...

These footprints appeared to date back to the Early Cretaceous when the continent was attached to Antarctica and hinted that the large and carnivorous theropod dinosaurs lived in the polar region.

New research by Field Museum scientists finds widespread herbivory in bird-like theropod dinosaurs. Four of the 90-theropod species involved in the study shown with dietary interpretations.

But it’s not as far-fetched as it seems. Both belong to a group of dinosaurs known as theropods, a clade characterized by hollow bones and three-toed limbs. Advances in paleontology and ...

An analysis of nearly 120 dinosaur species and more than 1,500 skeletal features revealed that the theropod lineages that are thought to have been direct ancestors of birds evolved skeletal ...

Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged, a few scientists are still unconvinced. No alternative hypothesis has been offered to ...

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The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed “Baby Yingliang.” “It is one of the best ...

"If you looked at an artist's reconstruction of something like Velociraptor or Microraptor or a small feathered theropod dinosaur very closely related to birds, you would see that it pretty much ...

Researchers estimate the sample to be at least 66 million years old and to have belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur or an ovirraptosaurus. Experts have called him Baby Yingliang. The egg was ...

Most of the dinosaur fossils were created by three-toed theropod dinosaurs. A few were also likely made by sauropods or ornithischians, said Diana P. Vineyard, who is a research associate at SMU ...

The discovery could help researchers understand one of the most significant evolutionary transitions – from bipedal theropod dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus to birds. “[This] critical stage of ...