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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Tail belonging to strange ostrich-like dinosaur discovered off coast of Canada

An 80-million-year-old tail found on a small island off the coast of British Columbia was the clearest evidence yet that ostrich-like dinosaurs once roamed North America’s Pacific coastline, researchers said.

These fast-running, bird-like theropod dinosaurs called ornithomimosaurs lived during the Cretaceous period from 145 million to 66 million years ago.

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