A claw sticking out of a cliff face in Mongolia, China, turned out to be the tip of the dinosaur - the skeleton of a 6-foot-long agile predator that preyed on its own kind.
It was a total surprise that the whole skeleton was buried deeper in the rock, said doctoral student Jonah Choiniere of George Washington University, who along with graduate student Michael Pittman of University College London discovered the dinosaur remains during a 2008 field expedition.
Now called Linheraptor exquisitus, the dinosaur lived some 75 million years ago and is a relative of Velociraptor, a feathered, bipedal meat-eater.
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It was a total surprise that the whole skeleton was buried deeper in the rock, said doctoral student Jonah Choiniere of George Washington University, who along with graduate student Michael Pittman of University College London discovered the dinosaur remains during a 2008 field expedition.
Now called Linheraptor exquisitus, the dinosaur lived some 75 million years ago and is a relative of Velociraptor, a feathered, bipedal meat-eater.
Full Story Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100319/sc_livescience/studentsdiscoverclaweddinosaurinchina
