Dale Russell, curator of fossil vertebrates at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada, believes that dinosaurs were evolving toward more human-like features toward the end of the Cretaceous period, including the development of a larger brain, forward-focused eyes, and bipedalism. Extrapolating these tendencies, he “evolved” a dinosaur called a Troodon. He came up with a bipedal creature he called a Dinosauroid, which, though reptilian in many ways, including its extremities and somewhat scaly skin, also looked very humanoid.