We know this because some fossils from creatures such as Archaeopteryx and Sinosauropteryx — both theropod dinosaurs — have preserved feather imprints. And some Velociraptor fossils have tiny ...

That’s not because it’s an exceptional dinosaur but as it was the first ... fossil discoveries it was once thought to be as long as 65 feet. But it’s actually on the lower end of the large theropods ...

About 65 million years ago ... for Indian Titanosaurid sauropods and Abelisaurid theropods during the Late Cretaceous period. The history of dinosaur finds in Gujarat began in 1981 when dinosaur ...

Over 100 million years ago, Australia's dinosaurs shared links with South America's due to the continents' connection through Antarctica. Fossils reveal the presence of distinct theropods such as ...

Australia, land of kangaroos and koalas, today reveals an unsuspected prehistoric past. Fossils of theropod dinosaurs, including the oldest known megaraptorids and the first carcharodontosaurs on the ...

In the 1970s, John Ostrom, a paleontologist at Yale University, identified similarities in the skeletons of birds and ground-running dinosaurs called theropods, a group that includes the ...

Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T. rex. Pterodactyls are flying reptiles that lived at the same time as the ...