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	Troodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Troodon formosus was a relatively small, bird-like dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period (68–65 MYA).
		Troodon (pronounced "Tro-odon") is Greek for "wounding tooth", and refers to the dinosaur's sharp teeth with serrated edges.
		Troodon was first named Troödon (with a diaeresis) by Joseph Leidy in 1856, which was officially emended to its current status by Sauvage in 1876 — though both versions persist in common usage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Troodon (377 words)

	Troodon by Murphy B. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Troodon was a carnivore which means he ate meat.
		Troodon had a "terrible claw" on one toe of the back legs for attacking.
		Troodon had a long tail that was almost a whip.
	www.sjr.mb.ca /JSchool/Stuwork/1999-00/G2Dino/Murpdino.htm (118 words)

	DMNH - Expedition to Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Troodon is a small meat eating dinosaur that is rare in more southern places like Alberta, Montana, and Texas.
		Troodon's large eyes may have allowed it to be active at dawn and dusk, which would have allowed it to avoid direct competition for food with meat-eaters active during the day.
		One of the striking aspects of the modern arctic is the angle of the sunlight and the length of the day, commonly, though mistakenly referred to as six months of daylight and six months of night.
	www.dallasdino.org /exhibits/alaska/troodon.asp (258 words)

	Troodon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Troodon was probably the smartest of the dinosaurs, with a relatively large brain for its body size.
		Later, more complete skeletons were found, and it was discovered that Troodon had different types of teeth in different parts of its jaw, much as humans do.
		Troodon was a lightly built dinosaur with a head sort of like a bird, and eyes that faced forward, like those of other hunters.
	www.cbv.ns.ca /marigold/history/dinosaurs/datafiles/troodon.html (112 words)

	Troodon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Troodon may have been the smartest of all the dinosaurs.
		Troodon is one of the most well known dinosaurs, with over 20 known specimens, including an egg with a Troodon embryo inside.
		Troodon is also used as evidence in the bird/dinosaur debate, as it shares a number of common characteristics with birds.
	www.jpinstitute.com /dinopedia/dinocards/dc_trood.html (152 words)

	Alaska Dinosaurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		But Troodon was much smaller—about six and a half feet long—and built more like the Velociraptors of Jurassic Park fame.
		Troodon was equipped with a "killing claw" on it's second toe much like that of the raptor dinosaurs.
		Troodon's eyes faced partly forward, a character unique among carnivorous dinosaurs.
	www.prehistoricplanet.com /alaska/features/nightvision (244 words)

	Troodontidae
		Even though dromaeosaur and troodontids are outwardly similar, scientists are not certain yet that they are closely related, but are confident that troodontids lie within the clade Maniraptora.
		Troodontids are best exemplified by the genera Saurornithoides (from western Mongolia), Troodon (from North America), and Sinornithoides.
		They were small (about the size of a small adult human), with long and slender hind limbs useful for rapid locomotion, and a long skull filled with distinctive recurved and saw-edged teeth (see the picture of two troodontid teeth from the UCMP collections).
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /diapsids/saurischia/troodontidae.html (327 words)

	Questions About the Interior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Troodon may have hunted down small mammals such as Zalambdalestes, another fast inhabitant of the Mesozoic Era.
		A pointed saw-edged tooth was named Troodon in 1856, and in the 1920s more discoveries seemed to show that it was the same as the bonehead Stegoceras.
		So, after a complex history, in which Troodon has been classified as a lizard, a megalosaurid, a pachycephalosaur, and a hipsilophodontid, it turns out to be a saurornithoidid deinonychosaur-a lightly-built meat-eater that presumably had large slashing claws on it's second toes.
	www.jsd.k12.ak.us /ab/pages/josh.html (497 words)

	dinosaurs, intelligent
		It's clear that some of the dinosaurs were getting smarter at the time the asteroid hit the Yucatan and handed the gauntlet to the mammals (fortunately for us).
		Had the dinosaurs survived, argued Russell, and a species like Troodon grown smarter, it would eventually have needed to stand upright to balance its heavy head.
		Visit this website for a cogently argued case that some dinosaurs may have got to be really brainy—to the point of hominid intelligence.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/D/dinosaurintell.html (532 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Nature (Tro-Tz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Most live on wood attacked by fungi, some are predacious and others feed on stored foodstuffs.
		Troodon was a dinosaur of the Cretaceous period.
		Troodon have been a single tooth, which after much analysis was eventually established in 1987 to have come from a carnivore, probably about two and a half meters long, which if it was like similar dinosaurs walked on its hind legs and had slashing claws.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /B9B.HTM (2832 words)

	Troodon - Wikipedia
		Pertenecían al clado de los troodontidos, que se caracterizaban por tener cuello largo, mandíbulas largas y estrechas con pequeños dientes afilados (troodon significa diente que hiere), patas anteriores cortas con tres dedos armados de garras y largas patas traseras adaptadas para correr.
		El Troodon (antes llamado Stenonychosaurus) es considerado el dinosaurio más inteligente puesto que su cerebro era grande y complejo en relación con su tamaño corporal.
		El Troodon jamás medía más de dos metros de longitud.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Troodon (180 words)

	Spotlight on Troodon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Troodons were among the first dinosaurs to be discovered in North America.
		Because of these discoveries, we now know that Troodons were unique and belonged to their own dinosaur family.
		Troodons are among the best known small carnivorous dinosaurs in
	www.yrl.ab.ca /spottro.htm (255 words)

	Amazon.com: Troodon, the Smartest Dinosaur (Special Dinosaurs): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The second book concentrates on the Troodon, explaining how the size of its brain case, the size of its eye sockets, and its teeth all imply that it was a pretty smart carnivore.
		Describes the research and paleontological investigation that led to the identification and classification of the dinosaur Troodon.
		Some people think that if troodon had not died out with all the other dinosaurs, it would evolve into a senient human-like creature.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0876147988?v=glance (579 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Embryos and eggs for the Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus
		Presence of large basal tubera and a broadly rounded anterior border of the maxillary fenestra permit assignment to Troodon formosus.
		Troodon eggs show several aspects either shared or convergent with some birds, and further demonstrate the close relationship of Troodontidae and Aves.
	www.vertpaleo.org /jvp/22-564-576.html (310 words)

	Troodon Nests from Montana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Even more importantly, a recently discovered nest included partial remains of an adult Troodon that may have been brooding the eggs, much in the manner of the meat-eating dinosaur Oviraptor, whose nest sites have been found in Mongolia with complete skeletons of adults preserved while resting on clutches of twenty or more eggs.
		Troodon produced two large eggs at a time, perhaps daily or at longer intervals over a period of weeks, and used and soil and direct body contact to incubate the clutch in an open nest -- there is no evidence of accumulated plant material at the known nest sites.
		Coelurosaurs such as Troodon apparently resembled crocodiles in having two functional ovaries and oviducts (modern birds only use one).
	www.dinosauria.com /jdp/misc/trodeggs.htm (434 words)

	troodontidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The ultimate taxonomic survivor, Troodon started scientific life as a lizard species based on distinctive teeth, then was reclassified as a pachycephalosaurian, first as a synonym of Stegoceras, then as a dubious tooth taxon.
		For a short period of time ending in the early 1980s, it was thought to be a carnivorous hypsilophodont (ironically, eggs once attributed to the hypsilophodont Orodromeus were recently thought to belong to Troodon, but new nests show they could not belong to it, but instead pertain to a currently-unknown theropod.
		Later, a partial jaw was found containing Troodon teeth, and it was found to be the same (or maybe not!-stay tuned for future developments) animal as a "saurornithoidid" named Stenonychosaurus inequalis Sternberg, 1932.
	personal2.stthomas.edu /jstweet/troodontidae.htm (1038 words)

	TROODON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Troodon had one of the largest brains in comparison to the size of its body than any other dinosaur.
		Troodon may have been a cunning scavenger also, at a place known as Egg Mountain in Montana, U.S.A., many dinosaur eggs have been discovered and in amongst them have been Troodon teeth.
		This suggests Troodon may well have fed on the eggs of other dinosaurs or newly hatched baby dinosaurs.
	www.rkey41.freeserve.co.uk /troo.html (113 words)

	The Tale of Troodon
		Prior to 1983 Troodon was a mystery to paleontologists.
		It was the link he needed to build a theory of what the Troodon looked like when it roamed the earth 75-million years ago.
		In fact the Troodon's foot structure, as well as its posture and brain indicate that it was very birdlike.
	www.exn.ca /html/templates/printstory.cfm?ID=2002022752 (635 words)

	Dinosaurs walk again, thanks to technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Real Troodon dinosaurs looked something like big birds, but they were no chickens when it came to hunting prey, says dinosaur expert Michael Brett-Surman of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Troodon dinosaurs would literally run down and rip apart their prey, usually small mammals or lizards, he says.
		Troodon dinosaurs had a brain that scientists considered massive for the time, Lessem says.
		A bigger brain probably allowed Troodon dinosaurs to hunt in packs, a relatively complex task that allowed them to attack larger animals, he says.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2001-08-20-robo-dinosaur.htm (1246 words)

	DinoData Dinosaurs Troodon T143 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		pachycephalosaur Stegoceras as generically indistinguishable from Leidy's type tooth, and claimed Troodon was the valid name for the dome-headed ornithopod.
		Troodon's tooth was not matched with bones until the 1980s.
		Scientist suspect that Troodon's anatomy made this theropod a deadly hunter of small mammals that ventured out to feed at dusk.
	www.dinodata.net /Dd/Namelist/Tabt/T143.htm (282 words)

	Troodon Printout- ZoomDinosaurs.com
		Troodon lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 76-65 million years ago.
		Troodon was named in 1856 by Joseph Leidy.
		Troodon fossils have been found in North America (Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinotemplates/Troodontemplate.shtml (169 words)

	Troodon - Natural History Museum
		Current research suggests that Troodon was a small and speedy carnivorous creature...according to your answers so are you!
		Troodon had an unusually large brain for a dinosaur, compared to the size of its body.
		This hints that Troodon wasn't a fussy eater and may have munched on insects, eggs and plants as well as meat.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /kids-only/fun-games/what-dinosaur-are-you/troodon.html (85 words)

	TROODY, the Robotic Dinosaur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Modeled from Troodon formosus, a carnivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous Era, Troody is two-legged and bird-like.
		The Troodon formosus is believed to have been a feathered, non-flying bird-like dinosaur with serrated teeth for which it is named.
		Peter took five years to work out the hardware and control programs for Troody to be able to stand up from a 'sitting' position and then to walk.
	www.mos.org /cst/article/793 (101 words)

	CM Magazine: A Moment in time with Albertosaurus / A Moment in time with Troodon
		The 48-page books are full of informative details: what Troodon or Albertosaurus (and their compatriots) looked like; where they lived; how they hunted, ate, fought, survived and died.
		The authors are scientists; Currie is a dinosaurian paleontologist and Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, while Felber is President of Troodon Productions and a geologist, and they bring to the books the full authority of their specialties.
		Albertosaurus and Troodon are informative books both, built on a brilliant concept, and written by experts with an intimate connection to the topic.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol8/no6/momentintime.html (617 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The trace comes from the Campanian, Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana, and consists of a bowl-shaped depression with an internal area of similar to 1m(2) surrounded by a distinct rim.
		Clutch and nest size, shape, and symmetry and low organic carbon of the overlying mudstone suggests brooding rather than incubation with vegetative cover, although the latter cannot be ruled out.
		Reproductive traits indicated by MOR 963 show that Troodon possessed plesiomorphies shared with crocodilians (some burial of eggs and lack of egg rotation), apomorphies shared with birds (open nests, exposed eggs, and incubation by a brooding adult), but also at least one unusual feature (steeply-inclined eggs) not found in either extant archosaur group.
	www.vertpaleo.org /jvp/19-91-100.html (303 words)

	Do you want to learn about the smartest dinosaur
		The name of the dinosaur is Troodon (troh-o-don).
		The Troodon ate other dinosaurs like Orodrameus and young Hypsilophodonts.
		The Troodon was not a very large dinosaur.
	www.erlanger.k12.ky.us /lindeman/troodon.htm (154 words)

	Forbes.com: Dinosaur Robots For Sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Dilworth, a thin, bespectacled man who favors flannel shirts and jeans, is already at work on a second-generation version of his robot.
		Troodons lived toward the end of the dinosaurs' reign.
		Troody herself weighs 10 pounds and is the size of a young Troodon.
	www.forbes.com /2001/05/23/0523dino.html (728 words)

	Scientific American: Walking the Dinosaur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		That scene played out for the first time this past spring, when Troody—a 10-pound, two-legged robotic replica of a Troodon dinosaur from the Cretaceous period—took her maiden stroll through Peter Dilworth's lab.
		He chose to model a Troodon for its small size and big brain: "The ratio of its brain size to its body weight makes it the brainiest of the dinosaurs," Dilworth says, "so I thought that was kind of interesting."
		His objective was straightforward: "It was for the robot to stand up from a sitting position, to walk and possibly run, go back to walking and stop and then sit down and be stable, and not fall over in any phase," Dilworth explains.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=00057834-900C-1CEE-93F6809EC5880000 (1220 words)

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