Science news articles about 'theropod dinosaurs'

... where the male is the sole or primary nest attendant." The researchers now had their link from the theropod dinosaurs (omnivores and carnivores that walked on two hind legs with bird-like feet) to ...

... Two of their discoveries represent new species of theropod dinosaurs, and both are described in technical publications ... sickle-clawed dinosaurs tend to dominate red rocks deposited under dry conditions ...

... having descended from dinosaurs was similarities in their lungs," Ruben said. "However, theropod dinosaurs had a moving femur and therefore could not have had a lung that worked like that in birds. ...

... provides surprising new insights into a long-standing controversy over which fingers are present in living birds, which are theropod dinosaur descendants. The hands of theropod dinosaurs suggest that ...

My colleagues Chris Organ and Andrew Shedlock, who provided evidence that theropod dinosaurs already had (somewhat) reduced genome sizes prior to the evolution of birds (Organ et al. 2007) have ...

... -scanned and measured the skulls of a wide variety of theropod dinosaurs, including raptors and ostrich-like ... sense of smell comparable to meat-eating dinosaurs, while at the same time it had very good ...