October 13, 2005
Old Bird

The Washington Post today carried this report summarizing the oldest South American raptor-type dinosaur yet found:

The newly discovered fossil, of a rooster-size carnivore known as a dromaeosaur, lived 95 million years ago and is the oldest raptor ever found in the southern continents. Its discovery may signal that dromaeosaurs are much older than previously thought.

The find also has implications for the evolution of flight in birds.

Posted by scott at October 13, 2005 12:38 PM

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