New baby dinosaur fossil discovered in China

Friday, May 3, 2013 - 15:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

By Megan GannonLiveScienceScientists have discovered the fossilized skeleton of a baby dinosaur representing a new species of coelurosaur, a group of theropods that includes ancient beasts suck as T. rex.With a skull that's barely taller than the diameter of a quarter, the remains are thought to have belonged to a dinosaur that was less than a year old when it died, and researchers think it measur...    

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