"Uncovering the Terrifying 'Chicken from Hell': New Dinosaur Species Revealed"

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"Uncovering the Terrifying 'Chicken from Hell': New Dinosaur Species Revealed"
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The discovery of a new species of birdlike dinosaur, Eoneophron infernalis, challenges the belief that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid impact that led to their extinction. Fossil evidence suggests that there are more dinosaur species from the late Cretaceous period yet to be discovered, potentially altering our understanding of dinosaur populations at the time of the mass extinction event. The findings also indicate that caenagnathid dinosaurs, including the well-known "chicken from Hell" Anzu, were thriving and stable in diversity before the asteroid impact.

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