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landscape, rather like the Louisiana bayou, he said. It ate plants and maybe small animals when it wasn't fleeing from a hungry and much bigger T. rex, he said.
• When it came to naming the creature, why not go with a spiffed-up version of "chicken from hell?"
• That was actually the first choice, Lamanna said. But it turns out the phrase isn't nearly as catchy in Latin or Greek.
• "All the names we came up with were just ridiculously unpronounceable," he said.
• So "I thought that if I couldn't come up with a name that literally meant 'chicken from hell,' I could at least name it 'feathered demon.' "
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A federal judge has given four current circuit judges in South Dakota two weeks to either abide by his orders or explain why they refuse to issue transcripts of custody hearings involving Native American children.
• The Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/PQv4Sp ) reports Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken issued the order in response to a motion filed by some parents who are challenging the procedures state officials used when removing children from their homes.
• Viken has previously said the plaintiffs can have transcripts of some hearings.
• The parents' lawsuit claims courts and officials disregarded provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act by holding improper hearings before removing children from homes for 60 days. The 1978 federal law came after Congress found high numbers of Indian children being removed from their homes.
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