Big and Birdlike: Chinese dinosaur was 3.5 meters tall

Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of an immense, fast-growing dinosaur whose body proportions don’t match those predicted by the evolutionary trends that characterize its more diminutive kin.

The creature, one of a group of birdlike dinosaurs called oviraptors, strolled semiarid river valleys of what is now northern China about 70 million years ago.