Posted on 10/25/2009 5:09:26 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The tiniest dinosaur in North America weighed less than a teacup Chihuahua, a new study says.
Seen above as an artist's reconstruction in front of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, the agile Fruitadens haagarorum was just 28 inches (70 centimeters) long and weighed less than two pounds (one kilogram).
The diminutive dinosaur likely darted among the legs of larger plant-eaters such as Brachiosaurus and predators such as Allosaurus about 150 million years ago, during the late Jurassic period.
Parts of the skulls, vertebrae, arms, and legs from four F. haagarorum specimens were found in the 1970s in Colorado and later stored at the Natural History Museum.
A recent analysis of the fossil leg bones showed not only that the dinosaur is a new species but that the largest of the specimens are full-grown adults.
The discovery knocks Albertonykus borealis, a chicken-size dinosaur identified in 2008, off its pedestal as the tiniest North American dinosaur.
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That ain’t no dinosaur, it’s a lizard!
They’ve been pwned.
It was probably annoying as all heck also.
The guys probably making $200,000 a year....
“We’ve been duped!”
Joe that is just sick.
“Jesus loves the little raptors,
All the raptors in the world.
Short and scaly, brown and green
Doesn’t matter where they’ve been.
Jesus loves the little raptors of the world.”
Tempestinasaur ping.
Tiny dinosaur linked by evolution to today’s Democrat.
ping
I think many fo the members of congress may be descended from this dino, and inherited it’s “pea-sized” brain.
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