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  • Check out those chunky legs... baby got back.

Another predatory dinosaur was recently discovered in Romania, by geologist Matyas Vremir of the Transylvanian Museum Society. Its name translates to "stocky dragon", which is adorable.

From the article on Wired.com:

A stocky, two-clawed relative of Velociraptor and feathered dinosaurs has been discovered in Romania. Balaur bondoc, which means stocky dragon, is the first meat-eating dinosaur to be described that lived in Europe during the final 60 million years of the Age of Dinosaurs.

Fierce claws, feathers, awesome name, found by a Transylvanian. This dinosaur could only be cooler if it was also an ancient alien robot.