What makes a dinosaur a dinosaur?

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How we differentiate dinosaurs from their closest relatives like pterosaurs, crocodilians, and dinosauromorphs.

Dinosaur of the day Erlikosaurus, The first therizinosaur found with a complete skull—described as "remarkably uncrushed".

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