{"id":13181,"date":"2007-06-13T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/13\/giant-bird-like-dinosaur-fossil-found-in-china-john-noble-wilford\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:06:09","slug":"giant-bird-like-dinosaur-fossil-found-in-china-john-noble-wilford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/giant-bird-like-dinosaur-fossil-found-in-china-john-noble-wilford\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Bird-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found in China &#8211; John Noble Wilford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dinobonesx.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/dinobonesx.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" style=\"float:right\"\/><br \/>\nScientists have uncovered a huge surprise in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inner_Mongolia\">Inner Mongolia<\/a> region of northern China: the fossil skeleton of an unusually robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago. The animal appeared to be a young adult 25 feet long and weighing 3,000 pounds and, if it had lived longer, would probably have grown even larger.<\/p>\n<p>Impressed by the size and puzzling character of their find, the team led by Xing Xu, a paleontologist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences\">Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/a> in Beijing, classified the animal as a new genus and species. It was given the name Gigantoraptor erlianensis, the specific name recognizing the Erlian basin of Inner Mongolia, where the skeleton was excavated. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/13\/science\/13cnd-dino.html?hp\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: Scientists have uncovered a huge surprise in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China: the fossil skeleton of an unusually robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago. 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