Theropod bite marks on the limb bone of a juvenile Brontosaurus from Wyoming. Large, carnivorous theropods would likely have favored predating on young sauropods over adults, given their giant ...

Fictional paleontologist Alan Grant, looking after kids Lex and Tim, tries to sneak by a dozing Tyrannosaurus rex and motor ...

Around a decade later, another team found fossils in Niger that described a similar giant theropod but from a different species; it became Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis. Read More: As Meat-Eating ...

During the Early Cretaceous period, theropod dinosaurs walked the polar regions in Australia. The environment, despite being extremely cold, supported these large carnivores ...

ALI ROGIN: Woods is one of the co-authors of a recently published study that confirmed the footprint was from a giant theropod, a dinosaur group that includes the T. rex.

In addition to ranging from miniature nippers to giant terrors, theropods adapted to fill a whole range of ecological niches. One of the smaller examples are the microraptors whose name means “tiny ...

Middle femurs of small (left) and giant (right) theropods. The colored lines show the differences between the anatomical zones of the two femurs superimposed (in the middle, more [red] or less ...

Researchers said depictions of the predator with giant flashing teeth, ... The teeth on T. rex and other big theropods were likely covered by scaly lips, concludes a study published Thursday ...

And giant it was – the dinosaur weighed over 4 tons, stood almost 11 m (36 ft) long and had a huge skull that measured 1.3 m (4.2 ft) ... Like many carnivorous theropods, ...

They range in size from the small Coelurosaur up to the giant Tyrannosaurs. Several theropod species also had feathers. An illustration of a ‘mega raptor. ‘CREDIT: Artwork by Jonathan Metzger.