All tagged Theropods
By the beginning of the Late Jurassic, the global supercontinent had begun to break up. Seaways had split off the Northern and Southern landmasses, Asia was an island, and Europe was a Tethys-spanning archipelago. And all of it, from the Chinese Shaximiao to the Tanzanian Tendaguru, was ruled by allosauroids.
Theropods (meat-eating dinosaurs) permeate popular culture. Anyone who’s ever had a passing interest in dinosaurs knows T. rex and Velociraptor. They fill books and movies; they’re perpetual objects of childhood fascination for their size, power, and ferocity. They’re windows into a world lost forever, that we can only ever look dimly into. And, in the form of birds, they’re still around today. In this series, we’ll be looking at the Mesozoic through the eyes of theropods, taking a walk up the tree of life and through time to track the ever-changing Mesozoic world and our changing knowledge of it. We’ll see the roles they played in their ecosystems and look at their evolution and diversity, along with a number of historically important discoveries that helped enrich our view of the Age of Reptiles and the predators that stalked through it.
