How to Use theropod in a Sentence

theropod

noun

• And in theropods such as T. rex, the vessel-packed structures would have covered a large area on top of the head.
  — John Pickrell, National Geographic, 4 Sep. 2019
• In 1909, the first tracks were discovered in the area, belonging to a three-toed theropod.
  — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
• The site has three main track types — the big meat-eating theropods that made the Eubrontes tracks, and two smaller plant eaters that left three- and four-toed tracks.
  — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
• The Podokesaurus, about 1 foot tall and 3 feet long, is what’s known as a theropod — a type of dinosaur that walked on its hind legs with trios of claws.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Sauropod and theropod tracks from 113 million years ago are preserved along the bed of the Paluxy River, which runs through the park.
  — Dale Blasingame, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
• What D’Emic and his colleagues found in theropods might eventually turn out to be more the rule than the exception.
  — Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• Tyrannosaurs belonged to a greater group of theropod dinosaurs called coelurosaurs.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 14 June 2017
• The extinct theropods lived 75 million years ago and likely only laid four to six eggs per cycle.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• Left: Researchers at a camp near the Beardmore Glacier, where fossils from meat-eating theropods and plant-eating sauropods were found.
  — Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
• The large theropod roamed what is now known as the northern part of Africa during the Cretaceous period.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• Such a find could offer better physical evidence as to what the mouths of theropods looked like.
  — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• Even the advanced meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods weren’t immune.
  — Traci Watson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2017
• Researchers believe that these tracks were left by theropods, a diverse group of bipedal dinosaurs that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Apr. 2018
• The findings could shed new light on the evolution of birds, which arose from a group of carnivorous, two-legged dinosaurs called theropods.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
• The dinosaur that made them was a theropod, probably Coelophysis (see-low-FY-sis), a meat-eater that stood about 7 feet tall.
  — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
• The dinosaur tracks belong to theropods, sauropods, and iguanodontians, and are spread across three rock outcroppings in the Brazilian state of Paraíba.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
• The theropods roaming around on what is now Skye may have been a very early cousin of the T. rex, which lived during Cretaceous period.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Apr. 2018
• There are also tracks of four theropods — relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex that lived tens of millions of years later, but these were smaller, roughly the size of a large raven.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• The footprints, found in a lagoon in Brother's Point, are believed to have been made by two dinosaurs -- a hefty long-necked sauropod and a sharp-toothed theropod, a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  — Zahid Mahmood, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
• The preferred strategy didn’t limit how much bigger the theropods became.
  — Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• In 2017, Carr and his colleagues published a paper suggesting that theropods like the T. rex had face bones with the texture of wrinkled leather, like crocodiles do.
  — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• That dinosaur, most likely a fleet-footed, meat-eating theropod, had lived near a stream in a forest of towering conifers.
  — Michelle Innis, New York Times, 5 July 2016
• All three theropods had beaks but with vestigial, or functionless, tooth sockets.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• Only two such tracks from a theropod have been recorded by Fiorillo’s team here.
  — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Vespersaurus paranaensis is a member of the Noasaurinae group of theropod dinosaurs.
  — Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• Mei is a small theropod dinosaur from Liaoning Province, found in a sleeping or resting posture.
  — Ginny Mohler, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
• And in 1996, scientists in China unearthed Sinosauropteryx, the first feathered theropod that isn't a direct relative of birds.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2016
• In 1978 — well into a dinosaur renaissance that began about a decade earlier — fossils from a theropod that would come to be known as the Neovenator fell from the cliffs on the south of the island.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2023
• For a while, paleontologists thought that an assortment of anomalies in the spinosaur body and brain allowed these theropods to sustain themselves along the shores.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• There are four pairs of theropod dinosaur tracks, which may have been left while the crow-sized carnivores were making a coordinated hunting sweep through the area.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024