Newly Discovered Dinosaur Halszkaraptor Escuilliei Looks Like A Mix Of A Penguin, Duck And Swan

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It had feathers and looked as if it were part penguin, part duck and part swan. It was between the size of a chicken and a turkey and ate the same sorts of things in the same sorts of places as a heron.

But it was a dinosaur.

“This is kind of a bizarre one,” said University of Alberta paleontologist Philip Currie, who introduced his new feathered friend Wednesday in the journal Nature.

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Scientific illustration of what Halszkaraptor escuilliei would have looked like:

Newly Discovered Dinosaur Halszkaraptor Escuilliei Looks Like A Mix Of A Penguin, Duck And Swan

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