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Early birdlike dinosaurs are thought to have lived lofty lives up in the trees. But a newly discovered creature had surprisingly long legs that may have made for a life on the run.
The leggy birdlike dino (Fujianvenator prodigiosus) lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period, researchers report September 6 in Nature. That’s around the same time as its distant cousin Archaeopteryx, one of the earliest known birds (SN: 3/13/18).
“It looks quite similar to Archaeopteryx … except the legs,” says paleontologist Min Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. “Fujianvenator has really, really long legs.”
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