Feathered dinosaurs showed wide diversity

Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 10:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

By Megan GannonLiveScienceFlightless feathered dinosaurs with parrotlike beaks and long, skinny claws that scampered around North America may have been the Darwin's finches of the Late Cretaceous era.Fossils of at least five species of vegetarian birdlike dinosaurs known as caenagnathids have been found from West Texas to Canada with wide variation in their beak shapes and body size, giving scient...    

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