theropod

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Paleontologists are now carefully studying the closest theropod relatives of birds for clues to how this transition occurred.
古生物学家正在对鸟类的兽脚亚目最近亲进行仔细研究，以寻找这种转化的线索。
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.
无论如何，从那时开始，科学家已经找到了一定数量的保存完好的，拥有类似羽毛结构的兽脚亚目恐龙化石，这种结构和羽毛绒还有羽毛叶片符合得很好。
But it is clearly a small, vicious theropod similar to the velociraptors that chased the kids around the kitchen in Jurassic Park.
普鲁姆高兴地说道。 “但它显然是一只体型不大却性情凶猛的兽脚亚目食肉恐龙，有点像《侏罗纪公园》里在厨房追逐孩子们的那种迅猛龙。”

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

兽脚类
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.
甘肃永靖盐锅峡自1999年发现足迹化石以来已经共发现10化石点，其中1号点保存足迹类型最为丰富，包括有蜥脚类、兽脚类、翼龙等足迹化石，且在该岩层面的不到2米的砂岩中发现有鸟类足迹。
兽脚亚目