'Mud Dragon' fossil shows dinosaurs thrived on eve of destruction

Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 17:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head became trapped in mud, struggled in vain to escape and died.

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