Early meat-eating dinosaur unearthed
Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Editor Features – Science
THE dinosaur family tree just added a new relative: a small, nipping, meat-eating creature dating back to dinosaurs’ earliest days.
Unearthed in 230-million-year-old rocks in Argentina, in life this bipedal animal would have been as tall as a seven-year-old but as light as a house cat. Paleontologists announced the new dinosaur, dubbed Eodromaeus, or “dawn runner,” in the January 14 Science...
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