Researchers find pint-sized meat-eating dinosaur
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 16:16
in Paleontology & Archaeology
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Imagine a vicious velociraptor like those in "Jurassic Park," but only as big as a modern chicken. That's what Canadian researchers say they have found, the smallest meat-eating dinosaur yet discovered in North America. This pint-sized cousin of velociraptor, weighing in at 4-to-5 pounds, "probably hunted and ate whatever it could for its size - insects, mammals, amphibians and maybe even baby dinosaurs," according to Nicholas Longrich of the University of Calgary....