Gigantic bird-like dinosaur stirs debate

Gigantoraptor erlianensis "is a very cool dinosaur, a very interesting find," says paleontologist Thomas Holtz Jr. of the University of Maryland. The previous largest oviraptor was the size of a horse. Most oviraptors are about as large as a child. "And this new one is the size of a tyrannosaur. I mean, whoa, that's large," Holtz says.

Yet it was not even fully grown. "It was 11 when it died, and at the growth stage of a high school graduate, so it still had some growing to do," Xu says.

That's a big "bird". I wonder if it was yellow?

The comment I find most interesting, though, is:

"Some experts may not believe this dinosaur had feathers, as it is so big, and we did not find traces of feathers, but from the evidence we unearthed … we are confident in our research," Xu, 38, says.

No traces of feathers?

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