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Mattress pad catches on fire at Macy's in SD

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Officials with the Sioux Falls fire department say a mattress pad that caught on fire at the Macy's store in the city's mall forced the store to close for about an hour.
• Authorities say Wednesday's blaze started after the material was pushed up against a fluorescent light. No injuries were reported.
• Macy's employees initially knocked down the fire using an extinguisher. Firefighters removed the mattress pad from the building and ordered shoppers and employees to evacuate the store.
• Large fans were set up to clear the smoke from the building and everyone was allowed back inside about an hour later.
• Five fire trucks, two support vehicles and 21 firefighters responded to the scene.

'Chicken from hell' dinosaur gets a proper name
MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer

• NEW YORK (AP) -- It's called the chicken from hell: a birdlike dinosaur some 7 feet tall that weighed around 500 pounds when it roamed western North America on its long, slender hind legs.
• The beast got its nickname long ago at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, where a replica of its skeleton has been on display for a decade.
• But the species has had no scientific name. Until now.
• The creature was formally introduced to the scientific community Wednesday as scientists published a description and analysis of its anatomy, and finally bestowed a name: Anzu wyliei. The moniker comes from a mythological feathered demon plus the name of a Carnegie museum trustee's grandson.
• Anzu had a toothless beak and a crest on its skull like a rooster's comb, combined with long arms and sharp claws up to about 4 inches long. It apparently also had feathers over much of its body.
• The analysis, in the journal PLoS One, concludes that Anzu belongs to a group of dinosaurs that scientists knew little about, because they had recovered only fragmentary remains from its members. In contrast, the three specimens of Anzu from North and South Dakota that were included in the analysis collectively supply a nearly complete skeleton, said Matthew Lamanna of the Carnegie museum.
• Anzu "reveals the anatomy of these creatures almost from head to toe," said Lamanna, lead author of the new paper.
• The dinosaur lived some 66 million to 68 million years ago in a hot and humid

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