Utah palaeontologist part of international team to discover oldest known dinosaur relative
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 07:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Until now, palaeontologists have generally believed that the closest relatives of dinosaurs possibly looked a little smaller in size, walked on two legs and were carnivorous. However, a research team including Randall Irmis, curator of palaeontology at the Utah Museum of Natural History and assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah has made a recent discovery to dispel this hypothesis...