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"BEIJING - The remains of a giant, birdlike dinosaur as tall as the formidable tyrannosaur have been found in China, a surprising discovery that indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for birds than originally thought, scientists said Wednesday.

Fossilized bones uncovered in the Erlian Basin of northern China's Inner Mongolia region show that the specimen was about 26 feet long, 16 feet tall and weighed 3,000 pounds, said Xu Xing, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology in Beijing."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_on_sc/china_giant_fossil;_ylt=AkwcnsrSLYoXMl8fixlpqNoiANEA

Can we say, "Big Bird"?

The article says the discovery:

"indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for birds than originally thought".

But evolution is always complicated. It's not a straight line from ape to human so why should it be a straight line from dinosaur to bird?

Also from the article:

"Just a few million years after Gigantoraptor evolved, it and every other dinosaur species on Earth became extinct."

Hang on. It seems dinosaurs didn't become extinct. They're still with us.