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Flightless Jurassic bird was like a carnivorous pheasant with killer…

The early bird found in China had many dinosaur-like features and appears to have been a fast-running land predator; the pheasants remain unconcerned.

On air: Dale Bearman and Hank Ledger on BBN Newsroom
Published 1:10 PM ET, Friday, October 16, 2026

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First reported by Live Science: “Flightless Jurassic bird was like a carnivorous pheasant with killer claws”.
Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 1:10 PM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Dale Bearman and Hank Ledger.

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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn October fourteenth, twenty twenty-six, Live Science reported on an early bird found in China with many dinosaur-like features.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt seems to have been a fast-running, land-based carnivore with killer claws. A pheasant, Hank, that eats meat.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWe have been warned about the wrong birds for years.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt seems to have been. The word is seems, and the bird is Jurassic.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeems. That is exactly what a conspiracy theorist would say.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNobody said anything about birds in two thousand nine.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorExactly. A cover-up. And it ran fast, so my plan of walking calmly away is finished.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDale, it is a fossil. It has been a fossil for a very long time.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHas anyone told the pheasants?

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