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Pictures of a Newly Discovered U.S. Dinosaur

Pictures of a Newly Discovered U.S. Dinosaur: Illustration of Falcarius utahensis
Pictures of a Newly Discovered U.S. Dinosaur: Jaw fragments of Falcarius
Pictures of a Newly Discovered U.S. Dinosaur: Cast of Falcarius
Pictures of a Newly Discovered U.S. Dinosaur: Excavation Site
Pictures of a Newly Discovered U.S. Dinosaur: Excavation Site
Pictures of a Newly Discovered U.S. Dinosaur: Fossil Forearms and Claws
Pictures of a Newly Discovered U.S. Dinosaur: Sculpture of Dinosaur
Illustration by Mike Skrepnick, courtesy University of Utah     1 of 7

This artist's conception shows the birdlike feathered dinosaur Falcarius utahensis. A mass graveyard with fossils of hundreds to thousands of the animals was found in Utah by paleontologists from the Utah Geological Survey and the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.

The small, 4.5-foot-tall (1.4-meter-tall) dinosaur lived 125 million years ago. The omnivorous creature represents a missing link between earlier meat-eaters and later herbivores.

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