RE: China finds new species of big, bird-like dinosaur

[Chris Glen <s370548@student.uq.edu.au>]

I had similar question - I had a crack at reconstructing Deinochierus as a
giant oviraptosaur as a school project in 89/90 (knew nothing about anatomy
etc at time, and nothing about the literature) - can't help making the
comparison now, though only a tenuous link to that attempt:

http://chrisglenart.googlepages.com/palaeoart-earlywork

Sorry, couldn't help mentioning it here...



>John Conway Wrote:
> Since the abstract doesn't mention it; I'm going to ask the obvious
> question: how similar is it to /Deinocheirus/?
> 
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
> >> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]On Behalf
> Of
> >> Vincent Fernandez
> >>
> >> Does anybody have heard about this:
> >>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070613/sc_nm/china_dinosaurs_dc;_ylt=AmjVALsr
> RP3FpG11_s3SCS97hMgF
> >> I can't find the PDF on the lastest issue of Nature...maybe on the next
> one
> >>
> > It comes out later today (about 5 h 30 min from now or so...).
> >
> > Until then, I remain quiet.
> >
> > But it's cool... :-)
> >
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