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Velociraptor wishbone discovery supports link to birds
October 1, 1997
Web posted at: 7:23 p.m. EDT (2323 GMT)NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have identified a wishbone in a skeleton of a velociraptor, bolstering the idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Wishbones had already been found in some other meat-eating dinosaurs. Velociraptor, a 6-foot-long hunter that ran on its hind legs, is a member of a dinosaur group thought to be the most closely related to living birds.
Velociraptor was a star of the movie "Jurassic Park."
The wishbone showed up in a specimen found in 1991 in Mongolia, researchers from the American Museum of Natural History in New York and George Washington University in Washington said in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
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