Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged, a few scientists are still unconvinced. No alternative hypothesis has been offered to ...

Decades of major new discoveries and studies have convinced researchers that there’s a direct link between modern bird species and theropod dinosaurs. Once dinosaurs were thought of as scaled-up ...

Clearly, Ostrom argued, birds were the living descendants of theropods. Still, many known theropods had big legs, short arms, and stout, long tails—hardly the anatomy one would expect on a ...

Led by paleontologist Jingmai O'Connor from the Field Museum of Natural History, the study investigates the evolutionary origins of flight in dinosaurs, particularly theropods like birds. O'Connor ...

The first theropod dinosaur has been identified in Kyrgyzstan. It is named Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, after a giant mythological bird from the Kyrgyz Epic of Manas that helps out heroes during ...

Both are descendants of theropods, two-legged creatures that wreaked ... to fear from pigeons aside from perhaps their filth. The birds have strutted the streets for hundreds of years, arriving ...

Pigeons and the Tyrannosaurus rex are descendants of theropods, two-legged creatures, USA today reported. The statue perched on New York City’s High Line is a social commentary on how precarious ...

He said the remains are highly likely to be those of a theropod, a bipedal group from which birds are believed to have descended. The fossils were excavated from the same stratum where a full ...

The Ovaloolithidae were theropods, but not part of the branch that went on to become the birds. Consequently, while if we were to see a M. ganzhouensis hatch it would be modest even by the size of ...

Decades of major new discoveries and studies have convinced researchers that there’s a direct link between modern bird species and theropod dinosaurs. Once dinosaurs were thought of as scaled-up ...