Students discover clawed dinosaur in China

[Contrary1]

:rofl:
Wow! Pranksters in China are trying to fool us into believing that the earth has actually been around for more than 10,000 years.



"A claw sticking out of a cliff face in Mongolia, China, turned out to be the tip of the dinosaur —the skeleton of a 6-foot-long agile predator that preyed on its own kind.

"It was a total surprise that the whole skeleton was buried deeper in the rock," said doctoral student Jonah Choiniere of George Washington University, who along with graduate student Michael Pittman of University College London discovered the dinosaur remains during a 2008 field expedition.

Now called Linheraptor exquisitus, the dinosaur lived some 75 million years ago and is a relative of Velociraptor, a feathered, bipedal meat-eater.

With its spindly body proportions, about 6 feet long and 50 pounds, Linheraptor would have been a fast, agile predator, the researchers suspect. Like other members of its family Dromaeosauridae, the dinosaur sported a large, curved claw on the foot that might have helped in capturing prey like horned dinosaurs..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35948769/ns/technology_and_science-science/

[Enthusiast]

1. Amazing condition! nt

[AsahinaKimi]

2. pretty Amazing Shot..

I kept thinking of that Scene in Jurassic Park when the kid said to Dr.Alan Grant, "That's not very scary, More like a six foot turkey".

[KittyWampus]

3. what a find and what a memory.