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A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China

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  • Xing Xu

    (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China)

  • Qingwei Tan

    (Long Hao Institute of Geology and Paleontology,)

  • Jianmin Wang

    (Hohhot, Nei Mongol 010010, China)

  • Xijin Zhao

    (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China)

  • Lin Tan

    (Long Hao Institute of Geology and Paleontology,)

Abstract

Big for its age A gigantic but very bird-like dinosaur bucks the trend that carnivorous dinosaurs got more bird-like as they got smaller. The new dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous (roughly 70 million years ago) of Inner Mongolia, China, belonged to the family that included the beaked, bird-like dinosaur Oviraptor, but whereas most dinosaurs in this group rarely exceeded 40 kg in body mass, Gigantoraptor, was about 1,400 kg and 8 metres long.

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  • Xing Xu & Qingwei Tan & Jianmin Wang & Xijin Zhao & Lin Tan, 2007. "A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China," Nature, Nature, vol. 447(7146), pages 844-847, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:447:y:2007:i:7146:d:10.1038_nature05849
    DOI: 10.1038/nature05849
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