Newly found dinosaur resembles large turkey

[herpguy]

Fossils of a new species of bird-like dinosaur were found in Utah recently.

 

This meat-eating dinosaur was seven feet tall, and could probably run up to 25 miles per hour. It had powerful arms, a strong toothless beak and threatening claws that fits the large dinosaur for being a predator. For an unknown reason, large feathers grew on its head. "It's quite different from modern birds," Lindsay Zanno, a doctoral student at the University of Utah, said.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060405/ap_on_sc/feathered_dinosaur

[insane_alien]

wow a seven foot tall christmas dinner. wouldn't like to be the one trying to catch that.

[JustStuit]

Have they ever found evidense of feathers on dinosaurs before?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Yes, in some fossils.

[AzurePhoenix]

Have they ever found evidense of feathers on dinosaurs before?

Quite a few species actually. A google search wil bring up a ton of info, but I'd look specifically into Sinosauropteryx and Microraptor, and basically anything new from the dromaeosaur group.

[silkworm]

Yeah AP, wasn't the first a Utah bird they called Archaeopterix? Which is a pretty overused name I know.

 

I'm not into dinosaurs. I only know it because my niece was writing a report on it when she was 6.

[AzurePhoenix]

Yeah AP, wasn't the first a Utah bird they called Archaeopterix? Which is a pretty overused name I know.

It was actually a German "bird," and however much a bird it was, it was still clearly saurian as well.