A 'Chicken from Hell' Could Rewrite the Story of the Dinosaurs' Final Days

Posted by fortran77 on Saturday January 27, 2024 @09:43AM
from the theconversation.com dept.

https://theconversation.com/a-newly-identified-hell-chicken-species-suggests-dinosaurs-werent-sliding-toward-extinction-before-the-fateful-asteroid-hit-221482

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Re:A 'Chicken from Hell' Could Rewrite the Story of the Dino... by jackofspades on Saturday January 27, 2024 @10:29AM (#39156340)

Good to see representations of dinosaurs trend towards feathers rather than scales...

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Re:A 'Chicken from Hell' Could Rewrite the Story of the Dino... by bediger4000 on Saturday January 27, 2024 @11:00AM (#39156613)

There is a Royal Tyrell Museum Speaker series video talk on this kind of dinosaur on YouTube. It's called "Oviraptorosaurs – The Growth and Hidden Diversity of North America’s Mysterious Bird-like Dinosaurs". Interesting for how scientists distinguish adults, juveniles and other species.

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