Newly Discovered Dinosaur Looks Like a Nightmare Goose - Gizmodo
Paleontologists discovered a 71-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur in Southern Mongolia that they believe had a body built for swimming and diving for prey.
Though it looks a lot like a modern bird, it’s actually a non-avian dinosaur, meaning it’s likely an example of convergent evolution, a phenomenon in which unrelated creatures evolve similar traits.
The dinosaur is called Natovenator polydontus, or “swimming hunter with many teeth.” Recent analysis of its fossilized remains indicate the animal was bipedal and built for diving.From the rump up, the extinct dinosaur may have looked a lot like a goose or a cormorant, a modern diving bird, but it had a long tail.