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Image of the Day: Death of a Dinosaur

An artist's rendering of a bird-like dinosaur (Tongtianlong limosus) in its last moments before drowning in a swamp.

By The Scientist Staff | November 15, 2016

NATURE, ZHAO CHUANG

(See J. Lü et al., "A Late Cretaceous diversification of Asian oviraptorid dinosaurs: Evidence from a new species preserved in an unusual posture," Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep35780, 2016.)