Fossil handprints made by a crouching theropod reveal that those meat-eating bipedal dinosaurs had palms that always faced inward, a sign that these creatures abandoned the use of their forelimbs as ...

How to use this book -- Methodology and calculations -- Definitions -- Classification -- Comparing species : dinosaur taxonomy -- Mesozoic calendar : the chronology of dinosaurs -- The world of ...

Even though the dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, modern researchers argue that there is still proof that ...

Some time round about 165 million years ago, the group of small, feathered dinosaurs that we call birds evolved from within the theropod radiation (theropods are the so-called `predatory dinosaurs': ...

Regular readers of Tet Zoo might know that I've published extensively on the theropod dinosaurs of a famous and much-studied Lower Cretaceous rock unit known as the Wealden Supergroup. This article ...

Earlier this week a new paper in the journal PLoS One reported a set of fossilized impressions that showed how theropod dinosaurs held their hands. Scientists were able to confirm that theropods' ...

The standard dinosaur family tree may soon be just a relic. After examining more than 400 anatomical traits, scientists have proposed a radical reshuffling of the major dinosaur groups. The rewrite, ...

Raptor dinosaurs like the iconic Velociraptor from the movie franchise Jurassic Park are renowned for their "fear-factor." Their terrifying image has been popularized in part because members of this ...