This Dinosaur Probably Chirped Like a Bird

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Two distantly related dinosaur species have throat parts similar to those of modern birds.

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Scientists have discovered a dinosaur fossil in China that may have made sounds similar to bird chirps, which could mean that the roots of birdsong are much older than previously thought. In a paper published in the journal PeerJ, an international team of paleontologists describes a 163-million-year-old fossil found in China’s Hebei province. The dinosaur, which they named Pulaosaurus qinglong, was just 72 centimeters long, and the fossil is alm…