Newly Discovered Bird Like Dinosaur
Despite this recent article, a new bird like dinosaur, Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, was discovered in Patagonia. At 90 million years old, it pushes back the date for some of the oldest known raptors discovered in South America and also has implications on dating other dinosaur species.
“Buitreraptor is one of those special fossils that tells a bigger story about the Earth’s history and the timing of evolutionary events,” says Makovicky, lead author of the Nature paper. “It not only provides definitive evidence for a more global distribution and a longer history for dromaeosaurs than was previously known, but also suggests that dromaeosaurs on northern and southern continents took different evolutionary routes after the landmasses they occupied drifted apart.”
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