{"id":624,"date":"2014-03-19T17:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T22:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=624"},"modified":"2014-04-01T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:26:34","slug":"discovery-of-new-large-feathered-dinosaur-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/discovery-of-new-large-feathered-dinosaur-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of new large feathered dinosaur in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chickenfromhellv1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-627\" alt=\"An illustration of Anzu wyliei shows several striking anatomical features of the large, feathered dinosaur, including its long tail, feathered arms, toothless beak and a tall crest on the top of its skull. (Credit: Mark Klingler, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chickenfromhellv1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chickenfromhellv1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chickenfromhellv1-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chickenfromhellv1-384x300.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of Anzu wyliei shows several striking anatomical features of the large, feathered dinosaur, including its long tail, feathered arms, toothless beak and a tall crest on the top of its skull. (Credit: Mark Klingler, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A ten foot tall raptor, with a chicken-like head and possibly covered in feathers roamed North America 66 million years ago, says a new study. A team of scientists identified this new species,\u00a0<em>Anzu wyliei<\/em>, from three partial fossils found in North and South Dakota. These fossils gave paleontologists a more detailed picture of North American oviraptorosaurs, feathered and beaked dinosaurs that are more commonly found in Asia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0092022\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 19, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiemnh.org\/science\/default.aspx?id=17461\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew C. Lamanna<\/a>, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ten foot tall raptor, with a chicken-like head and possibly covered in feathers roamed North America 66 million years ago, says a new study. A team of scientists identified this new species,\u00a0Anzu wyliei, from three partial fossils found in North and South Dakota. These fossils gave paleontologists a more detailed picture of North American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[268,265],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-dinosaur","tag-fossil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chickenfromhellv1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-a4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}