Friday, June 15, 2007

Fossil of Giant Birdlike Dinosaur Found

The found a giant birdlike dinosaur fossil in China. This was very surprising. The fossilized bones were uncovered and show the specimen was about 26 feet long, 16 feet tall and weighed 3,000 pounds.The meat-eating tyrannosaurs are about this height. But this dinosaur had a beak and slender legs and very likely had feathers. The theories were that dinosaurs got smaller as they evolved into birds but this one is 35 times larger than its most likely close relation. I love dinosaurs and think anything about them is very interesting.

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