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  • Forget what you thought dinosaurs looked like — this adorable bird–lizard just changed the game

    09/16/2016 11:45:38 AM PDT · by JimSEA · 21 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 9/15/2016 | L. Dodgson
    Paleontologists have teamed up with a paleoartist to create a model which challenges everything you thought you knew about the typical dinosaur. Dr. Jacob Vinther ofa Psittacosaurus — nicknamed a "parrot-lizard" — is about the size of a turkey, has bristles on its tail and a birdlike beak. In other words, a bit weird, but also pretty cute. It's also quite likely that the animal had feathers and a horn on each cheek, the experts say. Quite aptly, Psittacosaurus belongs to the group ceratopsians, which basically means "horned faces" in Greek. It's the same group that contains Triceratops. The scientists...