KU researchers discover poisonous, birdlike raptor …

Thankfully, it’s extinct.

The artist rendering of the Sinornithosaurus (aka Chinese-bird-lizard) above is from the University of Kansas whose researchers along with some Chinese colleagues discovered this beast who’s a relative of the velociraptor.

Read more about it in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which I’m sure is waiting for you in your mailbox right now.

After the jump, video about the turkey-sized, venomous Chinese-bird-lizard that’s not quite as scary as Jurassic Park.