Dino Mites: A Diminutive Dinosaur in North America and a Rare Mass Death of Young Relatives in China
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 18:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Just as the African savannas aren't all lions and tigers, North America's late Cretaceous wasn't all tyrannosaurs and triceratops. Researchers have found remains of the continent's smallest dinosaur, according to a new study. The Hesperonychus elizabethae, which, according to the study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, probably looked a lot more like a bird than a tiny Tyrannosaurus rex, is the first of its subfamily to be discovered outside of Asia and postdates the disappearance of its Asian cousins by about 45 million years. [More]