Feathered Limbs: Fossils of small theropod dinosaurs, such as Velociraptor and Microraptor, show evidence of feathered limbs. These feathers could have initially evolved for insulation or display and later adapted for flight. Running and Leaping: As these dinosaurs ran and leaped, their feathered arms...
Here’s the post that you’ve all been waiting for! This is the second-to-last post in my Brief Overview series, and it finally includes many of the most popular dinosaurs — the theropods. This large group includes all known carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaurs such asVelociraptorandTyra...
rex and Velociraptor. Most of these carnivorous dinosaurs stayed on land, hunting and living on solid ground. But the largest known carnivorous dinosaur is thought to have spent most of its time in the water. This 50-foot-long swimming dinosaur is called Spinosaurus.The Spinosaurus lived about ...
Therapods are two-legged dinosaurs that include familiar predators likeVelociraptorsand T. Rex, which quite likely had some kind of feathers. While many feathered dinosaurswere small, some, likeYutyrannus, were big:The 30-foot...
Feathers show up in a range of dinosaur species, including icons like the velociraptor, but most of the time they were in aprimitive formthat would have only enabled the animals to hop short distances orglide at best. Only one group, known as Pennaraptora, sported plumage of pennaceous fea...
Fossil evidence suggests that somedinosaurshad similar postures to the large running birds alive today.VelociraptorsandDeinonychuseshad relatively thin tails and long, feathered forelimbs, resulting in a forward shift to their centre of mass and a more crouched posture, says van Bijlert. ...
'There's a weird urban myth that Velociraptor has a higher encephalisation quotient than humans. It clearly doesn't. 'However, the size of Velociraptor's brain in proportion to its body is relatively high compared to most reptiles, including most other dinosaurs, so it seems likely itwas com...
While large carnivorous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex are shown with a ferocious grin, smaller animals such as velociraptors are seen with scaly lips covering their teeth. How accurate are all these Hollywood depictions? Dr. Reisz became curious about which version was likely to be right. ...
Dinosaurs, on the other hand, weregenerally more active, which means they needed more energy– especially meat-eaters likeVelociraptor. Without food, they would have died quickly. Dinosaurs such as Velociraptor would have struggled to survive without much food after the asteroid hit. That is, if...
Seven theropod taxa (Tyrannosauridae indet., Ornithomimidae indet., Therizinosauroidea cf. Neimongosaurus sp., Therizinosauroidea indet., Caenagnathidae indet., Dromaeosaurinae indet., and Velociraptorinae indet.) have been identified from the Santonian Bostobe Formation, and four taxa ...