Ant-eating dinosaur may have been ‘Tiny Rex’

common_sense_seeker · Apr 1, 2010

Farmer discovers fossil skeleton of creature, about 18 inches long.

A newfound ant-eating dinosaur was one of the smallest known and also one of the best adapted for running, scientists revealed.

A farmer discovered the fossil skeleton of the roughly foot-and-a-half-long creature, named Xixianykus zhangi, in southern Henan in China. The dinosaur lived in a warm, temperate forested environment watered by rivers and lakes alongside duck-billed dinosaurs and likely sail-backed predators known as spinosaurs roughly 89 million to 83 million years ago. Scientists aren't sure how the dinosaur perished, but the fossil is fairly intact compared with many, so another creature probably did not kill it.
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Ant-eating dinosaur may have been ‘Tiny Rex’

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