In 2022, experts uncovered certain dinosaur tracks on Australia’s southern coast, suggesting that large theropods frequented the area during the Early Cretaceous Period. At that time Australia ...

As the continent broke apart, dinosaur evolution changed and diverged with it. In South America, for example, theropods like carcharodontosaurs dominated the predator hierarchy above megaraptorids.

Tinier theropods may have found it easier to adapt to different resources—such as habitats or prey—than their larger kin. “It would ...

No alternative hypothesis has been offered to explain the multiple similarities between birds and theropods, however, and there is scant evidence to support a link to any of the other animals that ...

A fossil from China that's 150 million years old may be the world's earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds evolved much earlier than ...

Both dinosaurs are theropods - a group characterised by hollow bones and three toes with claws on each limb - and lived during tghe Cretaceous Period, which ran from 125 to 66million years ago.