15 Jun 2007
Giant bird-lizard unearthed in China

Ha! They found my chicken with a 'tude.

Paleontologists have unearthed a T-Rex-sized "bird dinosaur", dubbed Gigantoraptor erlianensis. The beast, which lived 65 million years ago, stood five metres tall, was eight metres long, and would have weighed in at around 1.5 tonnes.

(link) [The Register]

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