150-million-year-old bird had dinosaur teeth and a claw

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorScientists in China have found a 150-million-year-old bird with meat-eater teeth, a sickle claw and a body built for the ground, ScienceDaily reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTeeth? Birds don't have teeth.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThis one did. Closely spaced and serrated, like the teeth of meat-eating dinosaurs.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd the second toe bent backward, with a curved claw on the end.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd it's the earliest known bird to lose flight. So it had a sky, and it said no thanks.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAbout crow-sized, one point eight pounds. Researchers compared its limbs with three hundred seventy-seven living birds, and the closest matches were ground birds.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo nobody can say why it quit. The ground is where the claws are, I suppose.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy theory is it got heavy and tired of the commute.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMine is that every pheasant I pass on the walk to work has been planning this for a hundred and fifty million years, and I've been giving them crumbs.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a pheasant, Dale. You'll be fine.