Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

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 ...

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 ...

These finds rewrite the evolutionary history of theropod dinosaurs, uncovering a predator hierarchy unique to Cretaceous Australia. The research, led by Museums Victoria Research Institute and ...

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 ...