Salon.com > Paleontology http://www.salon.com Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:33:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Quote of the day: “Fanged vampire parrot” http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/quote_of_the_day_fanged_vampire_parrot/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/quote_of_the_day_fanged_vampire_parrot/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:31:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13030893 Paleontologists at the University of Chicago recently unveiled a species of dinosaur, Pegomastax africanus. The small, cat-size creature lived around 200 million years ago, scientists believe. As the Guardian reported, Professor Paul Sereno, who discovered the dinosaur fossil, colorfully described what he believes the dinosaur once looked like:

"It looks like a fanged vampire parrot ... And it probably had bristles, too. So it was a bristled, vampire parrot-like dinosaur."

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