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Big and Birdlike: Chinese dinosaur was 3.5 meters tall

By Sid Perkins

- More than 2 years ago

Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of an immense, fast-growing dinosaur whose body proportions don’t match those predicted by the evolutionary trends that characterize its more diminutive kin.

THAT’S SOME DRUMSTICK. In this artist’s reconstruction, two 3.5-meter-tall, 1.4-metric-ton Gigantoraptors tower over other small, feathered dinosaurs. Z.