Join Buddy Check 12. Click here to learn how you can help . Fossils of two species of dinosaurs found by scientists in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and in Canada show the ancient creatures did not use their beaks to prey on animals but to sieve food from water and marshes similar to modern-day ducks and flamingos.
Theropods are two-legged dinosaurs that are most commonly linked to birds.
They were among the fastest-running dinosaurs. Dr. Philip Currie of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta and Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York found the remains of the Canadian ornithomimid. They reveal how the creature ate and what their beaks looked like. Both fossils also contain traces of keratin which is found in human hair and fingernails. Abstract goes here.