Never-before-seen 'missing link' dinosaur walks, drinks and socializes in stunning new animation

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Never-before-seen 'missing link' dinosaur walks, drinks and socializes in stunning new animation
livescience.com

The newly discovered duck-billed dinosaur, Gonkoken nanoi, likely grew to around 13 feet long and weighed up to 1 ton, new analysis reveals.

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Show of hands: how many of you got a mental image of a cocktail party after reading "walks, drinks and socializes"?

I was picturing a dino dive bar full of black t-shirt clad gonkoken nanoi milling around before the band comes on.

"Charles, how the hell are you? You absolutely must tell me how your dissertation is coming along!?"

Great.... Thanks to this discovery there are two missing links in place of this one!

Great discovery, but that animation would probably better be described with "nice little" than with "stunning".