The Chicken From Hell

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A dinosaur nicknamed the "chicken from hell" was described by a team of paleontologists in a study released Wednesday, and researchers say it is even weirder then they first imagined. The dinosaur's official name is Anzu wyliei, but it was nicknamed the chicken from hell because it reminded researchers of a giant clawed chicken with a neck like an ostrich. (See the images above.) "It definitely looks more like a bird than a dinosaur," said Matthew Lamanna of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and the lead author of the paper. "But it was big. This guy was 7 to 8 feet tall with its head extended." The dinosaur had a rounded crest on its head and a long, strong tail. Its jaws were tipped by a toothless beak, and it was probably covered in feathers. When Lamanna was asked what kind of sound Anzu wyliei might have made, he couldn't say for sure, but was willing to venture a guess. "In my mind's eye it's a squawking," he said. "These guys are about as bird-like as you can get and be a non-avian dinosaur."

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