Theropods

  • Meet The Dinosaurs

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 14. In this article, we’ll focus on several individual dinosaurs and tell you a little more about them. As noted in An Introduction to Dinosaurs and The Classification of Dinosaurs, not all dinosaurs are the same. They came in all sizes and shapes. Some were meat-eaters (carnivores) and some…

  • The Classification of Dinosaurs

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 13. As noted in An Introduction to Dinosaurs, Richard Owen (Owen 1842) created the designation Dinosauria meaning “Fearfully great lizards” or “terrible lizards” to describe the new found dinosaurs. Dinosaurs lived during the Mesozoic era and dominated the planet in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. In 1887, Harry Seeley…