The Carnivorous DinosaursThe meat eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Some of the group's members survive to this day as birds. The theropod bird connection has been explored in several recent works, but this book presents 17 papers on a variety of other topics. It is organized into three parts. Part I explores morphological details that are important for understanding theropod systematics. Part II focuses on specific