Chinese Velociraptor cousin had a taste for birds

About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would ​have offered a smorgasbord for a small and opportunistic carnivorous dinosaur. Researchers have now discovered fossils of a dinosaur that seems to fit the bill.

Scientists ‌said they unearthed bones of a Cretaceous Period dinosaur about the size of a barn owl that was closely related to Velociraptor. The dinosaur, named Jian changmaensis...