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MemberCompsognathusMar-20-2014 3:58 PMit appears dino fever has settled over the globe. New animals are being discovered with an increasing frequency.
This new one? Anzu wyliei. A North American oviraptorid.
It stood five feet tall, weighed about 500 pounds, and measured to 11 feet from its beak to the tip of its tail.
Tantilizaing remains found in years past have hinted at the possibility of north american Oviraptorids, and thanks to the fairly recent discovery, it is now confirmed. The new find was three partial skeletons that were discovered in South Dakota and North Dakota, researchersare now able to reconstruct a complete skeleton.
they now posses clear knowledge of the dinosaurs’ existence.
“We knew there was a group of Oviraptorosaurs in North America, but we didn’t know many fundamental things about them,” said Matthew Lamanna, the paper’s lead author and assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
New oviraptorid skull:
Scientific reconstruction:
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MemberCompsognathusMar-20-2014 4:13 PMNeat. I find it interesting just how many species, live in one reigion, Seeing how we originally thought maybe, 6-9 species in a certain area... Now, Blown that out of the water, LOOONG LONG AGO...
Thanks for the update !
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MemberCompsognathusMar-20-2014 4:31 PMyeah, truly interesting stuff.
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MemberCompsognathusMar-20-2014 4:58 PMInteresting. They actually called it the "Chicken from Hell".
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MemberCompsognathusMar-21-2014 5:21 AMInteresting indeed. Do you happen to know when it lived?
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MemberCompsognathusMar-21-2014 6:00 AMaround 66 million years ago, so it lived with the baddest of the bad!
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MemberCompsognathusMar-21-2014 6:24 AMThis is very interesting. Seems pretty wierd, you have the Dromaeosaurs and Nanotyrannus that can bring down the Hadrosaurs and you have the Tyrannosaurus that hunted pretty much everything. The Anzu doesn't really fit, I wonder if we'll find out more about it's place in that ecosystem.
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MemberCompsognathusMar-21-2014 6:33 AMit would fit like oviraptor over in mongolia,
The velociraptors, Alioramus, and other dromaeosaurs would take down the hadrosaurs,
While zhuchengtyrannus and Tarbosaurus would take down anything they wished.
Oviraptor was most likely an omnivore, eating grasses, berries, insects, small reptiles, eggs, and even small dinosaurs when it got the chance.
Being a descendant, Anzu Wyeli would most likely fill that same ecological niche.
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MemberCompsognathusMar-21-2014 6:48 AMI totally forgot about Oviraptor 0_0 Thanks for the in depth explanation anyway. I don't think that Anzu would've been an egg eater, because it lacks the thorn thingamadohicker at the front of the beak to crack open egg shells, but otherwise it makes a lot of sense. Thanks again.
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MemberCompsognathusMar-21-2014 1:17 PMThis animal has actually been known for a decade, but hasn't been described until now. They actually have a replica of the skeleton at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA. I've personally seen it. It is a chicken from hell, haha
