The effort has revealed bones from the dinosaur’s wings and legs as well as the vertebrae, and parts of the shoulder and pelvic girdles.
According to Fernando Novas of the Anatomy Institute of Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum (MACN), the dinosaur is more closely related to birds than any other known species of dino.
He said: “When analysing its arms we found avian features related to flight, which was striking since we knew that it was a running species.
“This leads us to consider that in the phylogenetic tree, the Overoraptor is closer to birds than most of the raptors discovered so far.”
source: express.co.uk