Pint-sized meat-eating dinosaur

Will E Worm

Conspiracy...
Researchers find pint-sized meat-eating dinosaur.

Imagine a vicious velociraptor like those in "Jurassic Park," but only as big as a modern chicken. That's what Canadian researchers say they have found, the smallest meat-eating dinosaur yet discovered in North America. This pint-sized ****** of velociraptor, weighing in at 4-to-5 pounds, "probably hunted and ate whatever it could for its size - insects, mammals, amphibians and maybe even baby dinosaurs," according to Nicholas Longrich of the University of Calgary.

The creature has been named Hesperonychus elizabethae, after the late Canadian paleontologist Elizabeth "Betsy" Nicholls, who recovered the specimen. Hesperonychus means "western claw," a reference to the enlarged sickle-shaped claw on its second toe.

The find "emphasizes how little we actually know, and it raises the possibility that there are even smaller ones out there waiting to be found," said Longrich.

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