Caenagnathus

What it was like

Caenagnathus was a feathered, toothless dinosaur from the oviraptor group, with a long, slender lower jaw that ended in a beak. It walked on two long legs.

Its jaws look a little like those of birds, and when they were first found they were thought to belong to a bird.

Its world

It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada. Its bones come from the Dinosaur Park Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus, the armored Edmontonia and the small hunters Troodon and Dromaeosaurus.

How it was found

Sternberg named Caenagnathus in 1940, from a lower jaw. Other bones found later have been added, and some from younger rocks in South Dakota have also been placed in it.