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The chook from hell

A late Cretaceous feathered dinosaur that was three metres long and armed with vicious claws called Anzy wylei has been discovered in the Hell Creek formation outcrops in Dakota, an area already famed for its multiple T-rex and Triceratops finds. Looking similar to ostriches and weighing about a third of a metric tonne, the critters are related to oviraptors, so far only knownfrom Asia (see http://tinyurl.com/o3c4269)

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