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Giant bird-like dinosaur found




Topic started on 13-6-2007 @ 01:30 PM by a1ex


Giant bird-like dinosaur found


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Researchers in China have unearthed the bones of a gigantic bird-like dinosaur, dwarfing anything else in its category.
Alive, the beast is thought to have been 8 metres long, 3.5 metres high at the hip and 1,400 kilograms in weight — 35 times as heavy as its next largest family members and 300 times the size of smaller ones such as Caudiperyx. It has been classified as a new species and genus: Gigantoraptor
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reply posted on 13-6-2007 @ 01:30 PM by a1ex


What did this animal eat? It has the small head and long neck of a herbivore, but the sharp claws of a carnivore.....

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reply posted on 13-6-2007 @ 01:32 PM by grover


DAMN!!! It looks like the killer chicken from hell. BUT... can you imagine the drumsticks?



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reply posted on 13-6-2007 @ 01:39 PM by a1ex


Gives a new meaning to thanksgiving



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reply posted on 13-6-2007 @ 01:52 PM by laiguana


That bird would have enjoyed you for breakfast before you tried to make it your dinner.



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reply posted on 13-6-2007 @ 02:00 PM by newtron25



Originally posted by a1ex


What did this animal eat? It has the small head and long neck of a herbivore, but the sharp claws of a carnivore.....

www.nature.com
(visit the link for the full news article)


Must...resist...the...urge....Must...not...joke...ahhhhhhhhhh

"What did it eat? A thing like that can eat whatever it wants!"

Ha ha ha.


Seriously, does this mean that God brought us this dinosaur 10,000 years ago also?

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reply posted on 13-6-2007 @ 02:05 PM by grover



Originally posted by laiguana
That bird would have enjoyed you for breakfast before you tried to make it your dinner.


I don't know this gimpy fat boy can move pretty fast if he has to.... but you are probably right.... bet it like iguanas too.



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