New ‘hell chicken’ species upends understanding of dinosaur extinction
A young scientist has described his astonishment at discovering a whole new species of dinosaur dubbed a “chicken from hell”.
The discovery was made from fossils earlier thought to be of a juvenile from an already known species. Scientists say the discovery has big implications for our understanding of a period when dinosaurs were thought to have been in a state of decline.
Kyle Atkins-Weltman, a he purchased four fossils for $5,000 in 2020 when he couldn’t find the bones needed to complete one of his first research projects.
