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  • noun Plural form of therapod.

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Examples

  • Roosters are pretty aggressive,making them more aggressive through mixing their DNA with therapods would be scary if it worked.

    Poultrysaurus James Gurney 2009

  • I remember seeing a special on that, and at least for therapods, it could work.

    Poultrysaurus James Gurney 2009

  • In other words, it was ignorance which caused skepticism about phylogenetic relationships of birds and therapods, an issue which was resolved when more data were collected.

    Paul Nelson: Skepticism of the dino bird hypothesis explored - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • The issue presented by therapods is not merely the imperfection of the human body, which raises questions about the philosophical basis of “intelligent design.”

    The Ruse - Woodward debate: an introduction to political creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Great gray eminences such as the sauropods and therapods were colorized not by Ted Turner but by reason and logic.

    The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • The smaller dinosaurs would more often find carcasses for food smaller therapods were predicted to be 14 to 60 times better at finding carcasses, leaving the

    Ars Technica Matt Ford 2011

  • His first words to her, on meeting her and receiving her gift of a Natural History Museum stuffed dinosaur toy, is "There's no evidence that therapods were orange."

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • The protofeathers don't look like feathers from any modern bird, but are similar to those seen in fossils of therapods.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • The smaller dinosaurs would more often find carcasses for food smaller therapods were predicted to be 14 to 60 times better at finding carcasses, leaving the

    Ars Technica Matt Ford 2011

  • The rajasaurus pictured here lived at the very end of the Cretaceous period and despite its power, it and dozens of other carnivorous therapods were destined for extinction.

    Only a Game 2009

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