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The theropods were bipedal because they were carnivrous hunters. Running on two feet allowed them to be swift and agile so they could hunt prey better. This rendered their forelimbs unimportant so they grew small.

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What do you call bipedal lizard-hipped meat eating dinosaurs?

Bipedal, lizard-hipped, meat eating dinosaurs are all theropods. However, some theropods eventually evolved to eat plants and/or to be bird-hipped.


What is the name of a Bipedal dinosaur?

There were several groups of dinosaurs that were bipedal. The theropods, which included all carnivorous dinosaurs, are the beast known. But some ornithopods and prosauropods were bipedal as well.


What do you call bipedal lizard hipped man eating dinosaurs?

There were no man eating dinosaurs, because humans didn't evolve until after dinosaurs died out. Bipedal, lizard-hipped, meat eating dinosaurs were called theropods.


What has three heads six legs two arms and two wings?

Bipedal dinosaurs include all theropods. Also, some small plant eating dinosaurs were bipedal, such as Leallynosaura.


What do we call bipedal lizard-hipped man-eating dinosaurs?

Those would be called theropods. Though they were never man-eating as there were no humans around at the time.


What dinosaurs are biped?

Theropods were the main bipedal dinosaurs. However, some small ornithopods, like Orodromeus, were bipeds, and hadrosaurs could walk on two or four legs.


How do spinosaurus move?

Like other terrestrial animals, Spinosaurus walked on land using its legs and feet. Like other theropods, or meat eating dinosaurs, Spinosaurus was bipedal.


What was the earliest known dinosaur?

The earliest known dinosaurs were small, bipedal meat eaters (theropods). The oldest known genera are Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus, which both lived 231.4 million years ago.


Does the ankylosaurus have ancestors that live today?

All ancestors of the dinosaurs, including those of Ankylosaurus, are extinct. The closest living relatives of Ankylosaurus and other dinosaurs are the birds. Birds evolved from small, feathered, arborial theropods. Theropods were bipedal dinosaurs with three toes on each foot, and most were lizard-hipped carnivores.


Did birds evolve from lizards?

No, birds didn't evolve from lizards, but they did evolve from dinosaurs, a different group of reptiles. Dinosaurs are different from lizards especially because of their hip structure. Birds descended from a group of dinosaurs known as theropods (bipedal carnivores)


What traits do theropod dinosaurs have in common?

Theropods are lizard hipped, bipedal dinosaurs with three clawed toes that touched the ground (many had a fourth toe that didn't reach the ground called a dewclaw). Most of them, with the exclusion of birds, were meat eaters.


Is a theropods a meat eater?

Yes, theropods are meat eating dinosaurs.