"The year 2015 was one of the best ever for paleontology. It saw the discovery of organic protein molecules -- for red blood cells and bone collagen fibers -- in 75-million-year-old dinosaurs, and earlier this month we learned of one of the world's largest dinosaur sites, on Scotland's scenic Isle of Skye.
For this list, however, we are focusing on the stars themselves, the new dinosaurs that made the animal history books in 2015.
It is hard, for example, to forget the "Chicken from Hell."
"It was a giant raptor, but with a chicken-like head and presumably feathers," co-discoverer Emma Schachner of the University of Utah, explained. "The animal stood about 10 feet tall, so it would be scary as well as absurd to encounter."…"
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