Dinosaur 'missing link' unearthed in Utah

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Dinosaur 'missing link' unearthed in Utah Wed May 4, 2:07 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Birdlike dinosaurs newly unearthed in Utah may be a missing link between primitive meat-eating creatures and more evolved vegetarians, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

The 125-million-year-old fossils show features of two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs called maniraptorans, from which birds are believed to have evolved, they said.

The fossils also have leaf-shaped teeth, stubby legs and the expansive bellies of plant-eaters, the researchers reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The new species is named Falcarius utahensis, meaning "sickle-maker from Utah."

"Falcarius is literally a missing link," Scott Sampson, chief curator at the Utah Museum of Natural History, told a news conference.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/science_dinosaur_dc

Great Granpoppy of:

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[teenagebambam]

1. Haven't you heard?

Evolution is a lie. This must be a trick of the devil.

[blogbear]

3. I read in the local newspaper this week about another new speciman

found with horns..That one must be the devil..

[rodeodance]

5. thanks

[hatrack]

2. And just in time for the KS evolution "debate"

Shame there won't be any scientists at the show trial.

Shame that Roland Friesler got killed by an allied bomb 60 years ago last week in Berlin - he would have been the perfect presiding "judge" for this farce.

[goodboy]

4. 125 MILLION years old? Suckers! The earth is only 6,000 years old

dontcha know?