While other dinosaurs were crunching the bones of their prey in their powerful teeth, or slowly gnawing on leaves and twigs, Infernogallus jamesi may have been happily savouring nature's sweet delight...

Toothless, turkey-size oddity may have evolved alongside the emergence of flowering plants

Infernogallus jamesi is the first known dinosaur to subsist solely on fruit.

Infernogallus z Hell Creek to pierwszy znany nauce dinozaur owocożerny. Anatomia czaszki wskazuje na przystosowanie do jedzenia miękkich owoców.

The discovery by paleontologists from Stony Brook University, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), and the North Dakota Geological Survey reveals a new species, Infernogallus jamesi – a type of small oviraptor...

Toothless, turkey-size oddity may have evolved alongside the emergence of flowering plants

Some 68 million years ago on the warm subtropical flood plain of what would become Montana and North Dakota, a birdlike, bipedal dinosaur evolved alongside its famous cousin, Tyrannosaurus rex. Unknown to science until recently, this turkey-sized creature had unusual appetites and a specialized anatomy to match: It was, paleontologists say, the first dinosaur believed to have subsisted on fruit, employing a ridged and grooved beak with a top jaw that worked like a citrus juicer. It mashed its meals with a horizontal motion unlike that of carnivores, which used great vertical force to rip their meals apart, or most other herbivores, which ground tough and fibrous plant matter. A team of researchers including Stony Brook University paleontologist Gregory Funston identified the new genus and species in a paper published online Oct. 10 in the journal Nature Communications, working from five fossil specimens, including the first intact skull for a dinosaur family of its kind. They named the dinosaur Infernogallus jamesi, or "Hell Chicken," a designation that refers to its discovery in the Hell Creek Formation of the American West and the animal’s birdlike appearance, not to its temperament. Paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum and the North Dakota Geological...

Don’t let the name fool you: Infernogallus jamesi, aka the “hell chicken,” wasn’t some kind of ancient apex poultry. After extensively reviewing some of the most complete fossilized remains ever...

Infernogallus jamesi, a turkey-sized feathered dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation, had jaw muscles arranged like those of a fruit-eating parrot. Its discoverers argue it is the first dinosaur know

Infernogallus jamesi não tinha dentes e viveu há cerca de 66 milhões de anos

While other dinosaurs were crunching the bones of their prey in their powerful teeth, or slowly gnawing on leaves and twigs, Infernogallus jamesi may have been happily savouring nature's sweet delight...

Infernogallus jamesi, a turkey-sized feathered dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation, had jaw muscles arranged like those of a fruit-eating parrot. Its discoverers argue it is the first dinosaur know