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Zid & Zniw Chronicles

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Eyo look at the time! Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 'course ya do! It's time for #TheropodThursday!!

Daspletosaurus and Chasmosaurus hatchling. Promo artwork from Zniw Adventure

September 10, 2026 at 11:25 AM

Paleo Nerds Podcast

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Happy #TheropodThursday! Theropods🦖 are a hot topic in the news today with a new publication about the validity of #Nanotyrannus!

🎨 Two Albertosaurus feast on hadrosaur on a sandbar in Montana 80 mya.

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October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM

Anthony (Tony) J. Martin

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For #TheropodThursday (why not?), a theropod #dinosaur track from the Early Cretaceous (~125 mya) of Victoria, Australia with special bonus modern marine invertebrate encrusters. I nicknamed this one "Clever Girl," which also applies to its discoverer, Melissa Lowery (in photo 2). 🧪🦖🐾⚒️ #ichnology

Three-toed theropod dinosaur track, with pointed toes (ending with sharp claw marks) impressed in a gray sandstone but also covered with modern marine invertebrates (white serpulid worm tubes, mussels, snails, limpets, barnacles) and brown algae; the track was exposed during low tide along the coast of Victoria, Australia. Photo scale to the right, showing that this track is > 30 centimeters (12 inches) long.

Person (Melissa Lowery, specifically) standing on a rocky marine platform, looking down at and smiling at a large three-toed theropod dinosaur track impressed in the rock, one of many she found in coastal Victoria, Australia. Much of the surrounding rocky platform is covered by brown algae, and the ocean and a blue sky are behind Melissa.

September 19, 2024 at 11:54 AM

Anthony (Tony) J. Martin

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For #TheropodThursday (why not?), a large (40-cm long) theropod #dinosaur track from the Cretaceous (~100 mya) Glen Rose Formation, Glen Rose TX. This dinosaur stepped on former lagoon sediments that had U-shaped invertebrate burrows, which were likely unoccupied when dino-stomped. #ichnology 1/2

$Large (40 cm/ 16 in long) three-toed theropod dinosaur track, preserved as a depression, with points at the ends of each toe from claws and rounded in the "heel." Track is preserved in a gray and light-brown limestone with fractures, and accompanied by smaller (1 cm/0.7 in wide) linear ovals on the surface, which are the tops of U-shaped invertebrate burrows. A photo scale is to the right with centimeters and inches indicated. Limestone is in the Glen Rose Formation (about 100 million years old) near Glen Rose, Texas.$

July 11, 2024 at 12:45 PM

Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖

@kurasiu.bsky.social

Think we'd forget about #TheropodThursday? Not a chance! It's time to bring out our finest dinosaurs once again:

Daspletosaurus concept artwork from Zniw Adventure

Troodon/Hesperonychus promo artwork from Zniw Adventure

Struthiomimus promo artwork from Zniw Adventure

Reda the Daspletosaurus promo artwork from Zniw Adventure

October 26, 2023 at 7:23 PM

Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖

@kurasiu.bsky.social

#ThrowbackThursday? Nah, let's do a #TheropodThursday instead!

Zniw Adventure promo artwork - Troodon and Hesperonychus

Zniw Adventure promo artwork - Caenagnathus pair

Zniw Adventure promo artwork - Troodon mom and her hatchlings

Zniw Adventure promo artwork - Reda the Daspletosaurus and a young Chasmosaurus

September 21, 2023 at 8:41 PM

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#theropodthursday The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) has an allosaurus escape from a hidden area when the surrounding swamp shrinks during a drought. )I’d like to think it’s the valley of Gwangi, since both locations are in Mexico) It eats cattle, some ranchers, and perishes in that same swamp.

An allosaurus peers into a barn with a torn off roof

An allosaurus carries off a steer in its mouth

An allosaurus has a particularly long, wiggly tongue

July 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM

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#theropodthursday The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 film with a lost world theme - prehistoric creatures roam in a secluded Mexican valley. Gwangi, an allosaurus, is captured for exhibition and like King Kong, escapes and is killed. Incredible cowboys & dinosaurs flick by Ray Harryhausen

A styracosaurus and allosaurus face off with humans in a cave watching

July 16, 2026 at 7:21 AM

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#theropodthursday 1948’s Unknown Island is the first film to feature living dinosaurs in color. Ceratosaurs shriek and attack (both as puppets & men in clunky suits) in a passable adventure film. There’s a (non-dinosaur) dimetrodon as well, a favorite prehistoric critter. A giant sloth shows up too!

Lobby card for the film. It shows three ceratosaurs in a field, lurking over a collapsed man

July 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM

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#theropodthursday 1981’s Caveman is an odd entry to the “yes, we know they didn’t but it’s cool” film genre mixing humans & dinosaurs. Meant to be watched while stoned (really) it has Ringo Starr battle goofy critters like this geriatric tyrannosaurus & fend off Barbara Bach - they then married irl

A dumpy animated tyrannosaurus and caveman in the desert

July 2, 2026 at 10:20 AM

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#theropodthursday being maniraptoran theropods, birds are s branch of living dinosaurs. The Giant Claw (1957) tells of one from outer space that is protected by an antimatter shield. It promptly goes about destroying landmarks and munching people. Hokey beast adds spice to a fun movie