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theropod /ˈθɪərə(ʊ)pɒd /nounA carnivorous dinosaur of a group whose members were typically bipedal and ranged from small and delicately built to very large.- Suborder Theropoda, order Saurischia; includes the carnosaurs, ornithomimosaurs, coelurosaurs, and dromaeosaurids.
Much fossil evidence has been uncovered supporting the idea that birds evolved from a group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods....- We know that it is a dromaeosaur, a theropod and relative of Velociraptor.
- Case said the shape of the teeth and features of the feet were characteristic of a group of dinosaurs known as theropods, which includes the tyrannosaurs, as well as all other meat-eating dinosaurs.
Origin 1930s: from Greek thēr 'beast' + pous, pod- 'foot'. |