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

Xing Xu (), Qingwei Tan, Jianmin Wang, Xijin Zhao and Lin Tan
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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,

Nature, 2007, vol. 447, issue 7146, 844-847

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.

Date: 2007
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