Sunday Science: A Newly Identified ‘Hell Chicken’ Species Suggests Dinosaurs Weren’t Sliding Toward Extinction Before the Fateful Asteroid Hit
The Conversation
Paleontologist Mark Loewen reviews dinosaur scenes from films including the Jurassic Park series, ’King Kong,’ ‘Night at the Museum,’ and more.
An extraordinarily well-preserved dinosaur tail, with a fluffy covering of feathers, has been trapped in a piece of amber for 99 million years. Researchers from China and Canada identify it as a juvenile of some type of coelurosaur, a birdlike dinosaur that walked on two legs.
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