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New Dino-Bird Gives Finger To Doubters
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18-06-2009 12:51am#1Another thing to throw onto the giant heap of dino-bird evolution. Intoducing Limusaurus!Scientists from The George Washington University and the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing have discovered a unique beaked, plant-eating dinosaur in China. This finding demonstrates that theropod dinosaurs were more ecologically diverse in the Jurassic period than previously thought and offers important new evidence about how the three-fingered hand of birds evolved from the hand of dinosaurs. The discovery is featured in the most recent issue of Nature.
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Illustration by Portia Sloan2
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