First scampering onto the scene around 230 million years ago, theropod dinosaurs were some of the biggest predators on the block - and also some of the smallest. From the ferocious 14,500-pound ...

Evidence suggests that “the precursors to the dinosaurs and pterosaurs were much more diverse than previously imagined.” ...

Footprints made by large theropod dinosaurs have been found on Australia ... Moreover, while theropods ranged dramatically in ...

The most complete egg has a maximum length of only 29 mm, setting a new record for the smallest dinosaur egg fossil, Lou said ...

A fossilized dinosaur egg measuring just 29 millimeters in length, discovered in Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi Province, has ...

the body size of some theropod groups gradually decreased. This trend, together with many other changes to the skeleton, ultimately led to the appearance of birds. Paul says, “in 1996 the first ...

Experts had long expected that birds shared a close relationship with theropod ... oldest feathered dinosaurs yet uncovered. The living animal would have been about the size of a crow, covered ...

Theropods, from the ancient Greek for “wild beast foot,” are a dinosaur clade characterized ... from the Wonthaggi Formation — and range in size from four to seven inches.

I jokingly like to say that the closest thing to a non-avian theropod dinosaur would be an emu with a crocodile tail.” Jacqueline Nguyen at the Australian Museum in Sydney says the researchers ...

The second in a series celebrating 200 years of dinosaurs, J. D. Dixon shares his experience curating these reptiles.

the body size of some theropod groups gradually decreased. This trend, together with many other changes to the skeleton, ultimately led to the appearance of birds. Paul says, “in 1996 the first ...