New Raptor Dinosaur Discovery

A new species of dinosaur, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, has been discovered in Inner Mongolia by two PhD students.

The exceptionally well preserved dinosaur, named Linheraptor exquisitus, is the first near-complete skeleton of its kind to be found in the Gobi desert since 1972, and will help scientists work out the appearance of other closely related dinosaur species.

Linheraptor is in the Dromaeosauridae family of the carnivorous theropod dinosaurs and lived during the Late Cretaceous period. In addition to Linheraptor and Velociraptor, theropod dinosaurs include charismatic meat-eaters like Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds.

The students, Michael Pittman from Univ. College London and Jonah Choiniere from George Washington Univ., found the dinosaur sticking out of a cliff face during a field project in Inner Mongolia, China. Their research is published in the journal Zootaxa.

Source: Univ. College London

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• Univ. College London
• Michael Pittman
• Jonah Choiniere
• George Washington University
• dinosaur
• Inner Mongolia
• Velociraptor
• China
• Zootaxa

[wanlop46]

Awesome

[cenaAVPWWE34]

nice new speices of raptor

[KCwellard]

Awesome, thanks for the upload. (: