Tiny Dinosaur… Like Roadrunner On Steroids
“Film makers may like to portray huge terrifying dinosaurs marauding through the wilderness, but not all Jurassic beasts were so colossal. Fossils have been unearthed of a fleet-footed species only 28 inches long and weighing less than a rabbit. Fruitadens haagarorum lived around 150million years ago and was so small and fast it probably darted through the legs of larger species.It would have looked like a ‘roadrunner on steroids’, said Luis Chiappe, director of the Los Angeles Museum’s Dinosaur Institute. ‘We’re really testing the limits of body size among dinosaurs. Here’s an animal that is estimated to have weighed about two pounds (0.91 kg) when it was full grown,’ he said. ‘So this is a really tiny dinosaur. It is the smallest known dinosaur from North America and one of the smallest dinosaurs ever.” w/ photos + video
