Another "the rest of the story on a dinosaur"
From Ann Cantrell: Mark Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History For the past decade, dinosaur scientists have been puzzling over a set of fossil bones they variously describe as weird and bizarre. Now they've figured out what animal they belonged to: a bird-like creature they're calling "the chicken from hell." There are two reasons for the name. First: If you took a chicken, crossed it with an ostrich, bulked it up to 500 pounds, stretched it out to roughly 11 feet, put a bony crest on its head (like some ancient Greek helmet), added a dinosaur tail and a pair of forelimbs with five-inch claws, and then, finally, stuck some feathers on it ... you would have what paleontologist Matt Lamanna formally calls Anzu wyliei . A reconstruction of the skull of the Anzu wyliei at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Its foot-long lower jaw and powerful toothless beak suggest the bird-like creature may have been omnivorous,
