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Published: October 22, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Fossil bones housed at a Los Angeles museum belong to the smallest dinosaur discovered in North America, scientists say. The newly identified creature weighed less than 2 pounds and stood about 4 inches tall. From head to tail, it measured a little over 2 feet long, said Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County where the fossil bones are stored.
The dinosaur "would have looked like a roadrunner on steroids," Chiappe said this week. It likely ate plants and hunted bugs during the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.
Bones of four individuals were discovered three decades ago in Fruita in western Colorado. It was recently identified and named Fruitadens haagarorum.
The Associated Press
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