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Caihong jugi means “rainbow with the big crest”, and it’s the name of a duck-sized dinosaur found in China. The detailed fossil showed a Jurassic period dinosaur covered in shaggy plumage with a long skull and fan-shaped tail. Preserved melanosomes like a hummingbird’s mean it had brightly colored iridescent feathers!
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A dinosaur fossil found in the nineteenth century is still providing new data. The Compsognathus longipes ate a lizard 150 million years ago but died before digesting it. The lizard has been reclassified as a new species. Researchers named it Schoenesmahl dyspepsia, which translates to “beautiful meal that is difficult to digest.”
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The verdict is in. Halszkaraptor escuilliei is a very weird dinosaur, but it is real. The Halszkaraptor was a velociraptor-like theropod, but it had a long neck, duck-billed snout, flipper-like clawed limbs, and was a strong swimmer. The fossilized skeleton found in Mongolia was so unusual that paleontologists first thought it was fake.
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