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Strange predatory dinosaur from Europe's Late Cretaceous (page 2)

A team of paleontologists from the University of Bucharest and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) have discovered an unusual new type of dinosaur that is related to the Velociraptor, but with stockier limbs and a pair of massive claws on each of its hind feet.The researchers, who were working in Romania, were able to recover leg, hip, back, arms, hand, rib, and tail bones, making this "the first reasonably complete skeleton of a meat-eating dinosaur from the final 60 million years of the Age of Dinosaurs in Europe," according to an AMNH press release.The dinosaur, which has been dubbed "Balaur bondoc" or "stocky dragon", is said to have been between six and seven feet long, and the scientists believe that it was able to extend one of its claws in order to attack prey. Velociraptors had just a single claw on each of their feet.The findings, which were unearthed in Romania by geologist Mátyás Vremir of the Transylvanian Museum Society, were published on Tue

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