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Jade Simon, a professor at Laramie County Community College, was a critical part of a paleontologist team that discovered a new species of meat-eating dinosaur that’s best described as a giant 170-pound chicken from hell.
Discover an ever-changing and expanding collection of dinosaurs, fossils and amazing discoveries when the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in Hill City celebrates its 50th anniversary.
After buying fossils online for a class project, a graduate student ended up discovering a new species of dinosaur. The dinosaur was named "Pharaoh's dawn chicken from hell," and it lived during the late Cretaceous period,
New species of caenagnathid dinosaur discovered, dubbed hell chicken for its bird-like features, large stature, and its discovery at the Hell Creek formation.
Kyle Atkins-Weltman, who is studying anatomy and vertebrate paleontology at Oklahoma State University, was examining a set of dinosaur fossils identified as Anzu wyliei for a school project when he noticed the bones seemed unusually small for the species. “It took me at least maybe two or three days to really wrap my head around that because it was just so serendipitous,” Atkins-Weltman told The Washington Post. E. infernalis’ bones were originally labeled as belonging to Anzu wyliei, a dinosaur nicknamed the “chicken from hell,” and were found in the Hell ...