Early birdlike dinosaurs are mostly short-limbed and thought to have lived in trees, but Fujianvenator prodigiosus may have run or waded in swamps.
, are generally short-limbed, apparently equipped for moving through the trees. Pheasant-sizedlower leg bones were twice as long as its thigh bones, a trait not found among the other known birdlike dinosaurs.
Entombed amid mudstones and shales in what is now southeastern China, the creature’s bones were discovered alongside fossils of aquatic and semiaquatic species. Those clues indicate thatinhabited a swamplike environment. It probably dashed after prey like today’s ostriches or waded through water like a primitive crane, Wang says.Questions or comments on this article? E-mail us at
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