Giant "Chicken from Hell" is new dinosaur species

[Tanuki]

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/giant-chicken-from-hell-is-new-dinosaur-species-20140320-3540e.html
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..."Scientists have discovered a freakish, birdlike species of dinosaur – 3.5 metres long, 225 kilograms, with a beak, no teeth, a bony crest atop its head, murderous claws, prize-fighter arms, spindly legs, a thin tail and feathers sprouting all over the place. Officially, it's a member of a group of dinosaurs called oviraptorosaurs. Unofficially, it's the Chicken from Hell.
That's the nickname the scientists have been using. It's the term in the news release associated with the discovery. This dino-bird is not literally a chicken, or even a bird. It's definitely a dinosaur, and it lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, from about 68 million to 66 million years ago.
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"It would have been a cross between a chicken and a lizard," said Tyler Lyson, a palaeontologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, who excavated some of the fossils on his uncle's North Dakota ranch in 1999.

The fossils of three specimens of the new dinosaur were found in a sedimentary rock layer known as the Hell Creek Formation in three locations in North and South Dakota. The formation, the scientists said, helped inspire the nickname.

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"This group of dinosaurs looks really bizarre even by dinosaurian standards," said Hans-Dieter Sues, another Smithsonian palaeontologist and a co-author of the paper – "A New Large-Bodied Oviraptorosaurian Theropod Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Western North America" – published on Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.".....

[trusty elf]

1. ..........

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[pinboy3niner]

2. It looks like...

We're gonna need a bigger broiler.

[pipi_k]

3. And...

more barbeque sauce

[Boom Sound 416]

5. A wwhhhaaaa??

[MADem]

4. They're still heeeeeeeere.......

[LiberalEsto]

6. Don't cook tonight

Call Chicken from Hell Delight

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. LMAO!!!

Chicken rude and unreasonable!!!!


Just my style!

[Arugula Latte]

16. I want that for my DU name!

[kwassa]

7. Does it produce Chicken Nuggets from Hell?

It would seem to be a byproduct.

[Initech]

13. Chicken Nuggets From Hell just got added to night #2 of Coachella.

[kairos12]

9. Could be a problem for the creationists.

[brett_jv]

12. Well, you know how I know evolution is hogwash ...

It's because science has NEVER discovered anything that I would call a 'transitional species'. They simply don't exist. And don't even try to tell me this Chicken from Hell is a transitional species, because I reject that idea.

To me it's obvious that God made this thing, just like it was, half bird, half reptile, and that's that.

Signed,
Bob B.

[nxylas]

18. They'll probably say it's a cockatrice

When researching the mythical cockatrice for something I was writing, I found that they are mentioned in the Bible, and that some creationists have claimed that it refers to other birdlike dinosaurs. They will probably just do the same with this one.

[yuiyoshida]

10. No comments....

I can just imagine what they would be like! At any rate, I have always been fascinated by dinosaurs even as a kid. I was the first in line to see Jurassic Park when it came out. That movie still gives me a thrill.

[tclambert]

11. That chicken would eat people nuggets.

[SkyDaddy7]

17. YES, it would!! Lots of them!!

Just imagine if you had to around before you went outside just to be sure none of those "chickens from hell" were lurking looking for a meal!!

[hobbit709]

14. Chickens are miniature velociraptors.

[A Simple Game]

15. Does that mean that now everything when describing how everything

tastes, it tastes like dinosaur instead of tasting like chicken?

[Jack Rabbit]

19. Thanks for posting. Have you thought of cross posting this in the Science Group?

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