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Fossils Found in Chile Depict Dinosaur With Weird Mix of Traits

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Scientists have unearthed fossils of a strange dinosaur in southern Chile with such an unusual combination of traits that they are comparing it to a platypus, that oddball egg-laying, duck-billed mammal from Australia. Named Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, it is a member of the theropods, the group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. The theropods included the largest land meat-eaters in Earth's history, but Chilesaurus diegosuarezi ate only plants, with a beak and leaf-shaped teeth,...

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