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A large oviraptorosaur, or bird-like feathered dinosaur, Anzu lived during the latest Cretaceous of western North America about 66 million years ago. Anzu had a tall crest atop its toothless beaked skull, long arms with wings and big claws, and long legs, earning the nickname ‘chicken from hell’. While oviraptorosaurs had been well-documented in the Cretaceous of Asia for decades, Anzu’s description in 2014 was the first fairly complete set of remains for an oviraptorosaur from North America, expanding our understanding of the geographic range of these beaked, feathered dinosaurs that were both similar to and very different from birds at the same time.
