Theropods and Dinosaurs Close to Birds

Explore carnivorous theropods, plant-eating lineages and dinosaurs closely related to birds together. These animals did not all share the same food, feathers or flight ability. Distinguish structures confirmed by fossils, ecological inferences and artistic reconstruction.

Published animal profiles

Tyrannosaurus
Reading Tyrannosaurus’s huge jaws and bipedal movement from fossils. Tyrannosaurus rex was a tyrannosaurid theropod living in North America near the end of the Late Cretaceous. Known through bones and teeth from Canada and the United States, it lived at a different time from Jurassic Allosaurus.
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