Huge bird dino unearthed in China

Submitted by Waspie & Pandora: The fossilised remains of a giant bird-like dinosaur have been uncovered in the region of Inner Mongolia, China. While some have theorised that meat-eating dinosaurs got smaller as they evolved to be more bird-like, this beast weighed about 1,400kg (3,080lbs).

That is about 35 times heavier than other similar feathered dinosaurs.

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This discovery sheds light on the giant oviraptor that once lived in the S.E United States. They grew to over 17 feet long. The previous idea is that the oviraptorids grew large once they came to N. America, but acccording to this discovery, the large oviraptorids might of well evolved in E. Asia!

Very important discovery!

I thought we all ways knew about Big Bird?

I thought we all ways knew about Big Bird?

LOL! Although from the description, it sounds more like a prehistoric vulture rather than a kid-friendly bird.

Not to sound asinine since there is probably a reason behind it but, why do these dinosaurs have long complicated names like Gigantoraptorerlianensis. Don't make fun of me I'm still young and naive, but even you have to admit this name is quite ridiculous

Not to sound asinine since there is probably a reason behind it but, why do these dinosaurs have long complicated names like Gigantoraptorerlianensis. Don't make fun of me I'm still young and naive, but even you have to admit this name is quite ridiculous

well everything has a long complicated name

humans for example

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Primates

Family: Hominidae

Genus: Homo

Species: H. sapiens

Subspecies: H. s. sapiens

its just the scientific classification

the T rex for example is this

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Sauropsida

Superorder: Dinosauria

Order: Saurischia

Suborder: Theropoda

Family: Tyrannosauridae

Genus: Tyrannosaurus

Species: T. rex

Not to sound asinine since there is probably a reason behind it but, why do these dinosaurs have long complicated names like Gigantoraptorerlianensis. Don't make fun of me I'm still young and naive, but even you have to admit this name is quite ridiculous

What joshy said... but to elaborate, the long complicated names are scientific names and are used so that you can tell exactly what type of animal it is just from the name. Its similar to chemical names like hydrogen dioxide or sodium bicarbonate

From the looks of it what they found was not kid friendly but maybe it’s his drinking, cig smoking grandpa, or some relative down the line.

From the looks of it what they found was not kid friendly but maybe it’s his drinking, cig smoking grandpa, or some relative down the line.

Haha, right, right. My mistake.