A turkey-sized 'hell chicken' is the first dinosaur ever found built for eating fruit

It lived alongside T. rex at the end of the dinosaur age, weighed about 12 kilograms (about 25 pounds) — roughly a large turkey — and had no teeth at all. Now a nearly complete skull found in the Hell Creek rocks of the northern USA has revealed something nobody expected: Infernogallus jamesi, a small feathered dinosaur nicknamed the 'hell chicken', had jaw muscles arranged like a fruit-eating parrot's, letting its beak slide back and forth to mash soft fruit and free the seeds inside. Teams from Stony Brook University, the Royal Ontario Museum and the North Dakota Geological Survey say it is the first dinosaur known to be specialised for eating fruit — which hints dinosaurs may have helped spread the seeds of the flowering plants that were taking over the world around them. Complete skulls of dinosaurs this small are vanishingly rare, and this one, now on display in Toronto, is rewriting what these animals ate.