herpguy Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 wow a seven foot tall christmas dinner. wouldn't like to be the one trying to catch that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustStuit Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Have they ever found evidense of feathers on dinosaurs before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Yes, in some fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silkworm Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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