theropod dinosaur

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• They do still have two skeletons of Tarbosaurus, a theropod dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Birds, close cousins of pterodactyls, are believed to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs about 150 million years ago.
• When I was a kid growing up, my books on dinosaurs, when describing the Triassic period, featured drawings and descriptions of small bipedal thecodonts, looking like miniature theropod dinosaurs.
• These great birds were the last successors of the mighty theropod dinosaurs of the Mesozoic.
• The consequence of these amazing fossil finds has been a simultaneous redefinition of what it means to be a bird and a reconsideration of the biology and life history of the theropod dinosaurs.
• His work provided strong, compelling support for the theory that birds are theropod dinosaurs.
• Andrew: pneumaticity expert Matt Wedel and I are due to work together some time in 2007 on the skeletal and soft-tissue pneumaticity in sauropod and theropod dinosaurs, so I will certainly be blogging about this subject in the near future. Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’
• It is absolutely wrong to argue – as some workers have – that the ‘trees down’ theory is at odds with the very robust and well supported body of evidence showing that birds are theropod dinosaurs, given that basal birds, and the theropods closest to birds, were apparently small-bodied proficient tree climbers, and not big cursorial Deinonychus-like predators as some would have it. Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
• In the Mesozoic top predators included the biggest theropod dinosaurs on land, and pliosaurs and mosasaurs in the seas.
• The evidence of nesting and parental care in ornithischian, sauropod, and theropod dinosaurs is extensive.