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'Amazing Dragon' Fossil Upends Origins of World's Largest Dinosaurs on.natgeo.com/2JQPINr via @NatGeoScience

so cool. It's all there - the idea that the lineage started out bipedal (which explains the trackways with young animals running on hindlegs!), the bone reabsorbtion/redistribution.

Have I mentioned just how awesome dinosaurs are?

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@Jacel oh that's awesome! Thanks!

the spines and cast in feathering make it look a little like a huge Skeksis which is of course ridiculously cool.

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