The newly identified species, which paleontologists describe as a “cross between a chicken and a velociraptor,” lived near the very end of the dinosaur age, just 200,000 years before dinosaurs died off 66 million years ago.
Yet its DNA lived on. A team of researchers from Spain, Scotland and Canada say the “chicken dino” was an ancestor of modern birds. Some of its behaviors, they say, seem strikingly similar to those of ostriches.
