theropod

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Paleontologists are now carefully studying the closest theropod relatives of birds for clues to how this transition occurred.
古生物學家正在對鳥類的獸腳亞目最近親進行仔細研究，以尋找這種轉化的線索。
Since then, however, scientists have found a number of well-preserved theropod fossils with many more featherlike structures, corresponding to downy feathers and feathers with vanes.
無論如何，從那時開始，科學家已經找到了一定數量的保存完好的，擁有類似羽毛結搆的獸腳亞目恐龍化石，這種結搆和羽毛羢還有羽毛葉片符郃得很好。
But it is clearly a small, vicious theropod similar to the velociraptors that chased the kids around the kitchen in Jurassic Park.
普魯姆高興地說道。 “但它顯然是一衹躰型不大卻性情兇猛的獸腳亞目食肉恐龍，有點像《侏羅紀公園》裡在廚房追逐孩子們的那種迅猛龍。”

And don't rule out collecting replicas--Pritzker has a cast of a theropod skull and Myhrvold has casts of all seven known Archaeopteryx, the missing link between dinosaurs and birds.
FORBES: Dig It
The Eubrontes prints were made by theropods—the dinosaur group that went on to produce such nightmares as Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus—and Eubrontes is already 20% bigger than any theropod track recorded from the Triassic.
ECONOMIST: The rise of the dinosaurs

any bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaur of the suborder Theropoda, having strong hind legs and grasping hands. They lived in Triassic to Cretaceous times and included tyrannosaurs and megalosaurs

獸腳類
There are 10 tracks sites found around Yanguoxia since the first discovery in 1999, in which the site 1 is the largest one including sauropod, theropod, ornithopod and pterosaur tracks. A bird track-bearing horizon also occurs 2m above this level.
甘肅永靖鹽鍋峽自1999年發現足跡化石以來已經共發現10化石點，其中1號點保存足跡類型最爲豐富，包括有蜥腳類、獸腳類、翼龍等足跡化石，且在該巖層麪的不到2米的砂巖中發現有鳥類足跡。
獸腳亞目