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One dinosaur, in particular, has captivated scientists for decades as a possible “thinking dinosaur”: Troodon formosus. Small, swift, and birdlike, Troodon wasn’t the largest or most fearsome predator ...

Troodon formosus was a small coelurosaurian dinosaur—a member of the same clade (evolutionary group) to which modern birds belong. Fossilized remains have been discovered of nesting parents and egg ...

Today’s dinosaur is often saluted as one of the most intelligent to have ever lived. But just how smart was it? And can we possibly know for sure? These questions and others will be tackled as we ...

Modern science reveals dinosaurs were more intelligent than previously thought, with Troodon formosus standing out as an exceptional thinker. This small predator possessed a large brain, advanced ...

An international research team has determined that Troodon, a dinosaur very close to modern birds, was a warm-blooded animal (an endotherm), but had a reproductive system similar to that of modern ...

A small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds -- bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs, researchers have found. A small, ...

Scientists disclose that Troodon was exceptionally intelligent in relation to other dinosaurs that could be found at the time. It wandered in late Cretaceous on the landscapes of North America ...