Palaeontologists from Stony Brook University, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the North Dakota Geological Survey have identified Infernogallus, a 25-pound turkey-sized dinosaur dubbed the &ldquo;hell chicken&rdquo;.
Discovered in the Hell Creek Formation, its nearly complete articulated skull revealed a toothless, parrot-like lower jaw that moved back and forth.&nbsp;
This unique mechanism allowed it to crush fleshy fruits from angiosperms and separate seeds, providing compelling evidence of specialised fruit-eating <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/new-dinosaur-species-identified-from-forgotten-museum-fossils-23657659" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period</a>.
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