You could crush him with your feet... if you lived in Colorado 150 Million years ago. This is Fruitadens haagarorum, the smallest dinosaur in North America. The tiny dinosaur was just discovered by a team that includes Dr. Luis Chiappe, who runs the
Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The team just published their new dinosaur find in the Great Britain's
Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
As you can see from the drawing, Fruitadens haagarorum was only 28 inches long and weighed much less than a modern chicken... about two pounds. Although the animal's bones were discovered in the 1970's, all the puzzle pieces didn't come together as one dinosaur until tonight when the journal published the team's findings 'across the pond'.
You can check out the scientists hard at work and see the new dinosaur inside the
Dino Lab.
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is located near downtown in Exposition Park at 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles. Open daily from 9:30 am to 5 pm; Tickets are $9 for adults, $6.50 for children. For more information, visit the Museum’s website at www.nhm.org or call (213) 763-DINO.
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