This New Dinosaur Looked Like A Massive\, Terrifying Chicken

This kind of cute, kind of scary chicken dinosaur was able to crush shells with its powerful jaws.

????2(*VO-Video)TC :53??On screen - Gobiraptor minutus??Discovered in the Gobi desert, the creature has been named Gobiraptor minutus and was a member of the oviraptorosaurs group.????2(*VO-Video)TC :24??Researchers published their find in PLOS ONE and say it would have eaten shellfish which it would have easily been able to crack open.

????2(*VO-Video)TC 1:03??Just keep still on 1:03 up and slow pull in??The discovery sheds some new light on the dinosaurs lifestyle since their diet and feeding strategies are still unclear.

????1(*VO-Still)??On screen - Different from its cousins with its unusual thickened jaws??Gobiraptor minutus was different from its cousins with its unusual thickened jaws which allowed it to eat shellfish and other tough to bite food.

????2(*VO-Video)TC :34??And the massive chicken comparison is no joke, since oviraptorosaurs reached up to 11 feet in length and weighed up to 500 pounds… ??