Although Godzilla is a product and a metaphor for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the giant theropod does have some resemblance to ancient dinosaurs. Here are a few, as well as some ...

Despite what's depicted in movies and books, the real Tyrannosaurus rex was likely an awkward swimmer at best. To date, no ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...