by David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
SAN FRANCISCO — Xu Xing, a Chinese paleontologist, puzzled over the thigh bone of a monstrous new dinosaur he and his partners had discovered in the rich fossil beds of the Gobi desert.

The bone was so big, he said in an e-mail to The Chronicle, that he thought he and his colleagues had merely found another of those familiar plant-eating, long-necked, semi-aquatic creatures called sauropods, well known in the evolutionary past of the dinosaur world.[…]

“When I went back to my geologist colleague Lin Tan’s lab to check the skeleton, I was shocked,” Xu wrote in his e-mail, “I said to Tan, ‘it is not a sauropod, it is not a tyrannosaurus, it is a tyrannosaurus-sized oviraptor. We have a gigantic chicken!’”

jay: sux that the dude in the picture had to fellate that giant chicken. worst. prehistoric. job. ever.

cates: “the bone was so big…” that doesn’t sound like a complaining fellater to me.

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