Tiny dinosaur makes home at Natural History Museum of L.A. County
It weighed less than 2 pounds and was just 28 inches in length. But the Fruitadens haagarorum, as it is now known, represents a significant piece of the puzzle in mankind's knowledge of the dinosaur era.
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County said Tuesday that an international team of scientists had recently identified and named the species, which lived during the late Jurassic period in the western region of North America. It is the smallest dinosaur discovered on the continent.
Bones of the Fruitadens haagarorum were unearthed in the late 1970s in Colorado, but it has taken until now for scientists to get around to classifying them.
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County said Tuesday that an international team of scientists had recently identified and named the species, which lived during the late Jurassic period in the western region of North America. It is the smallest dinosaur discovered on the continent.
Bones of the Fruitadens haagarorum were unearthed in the late 1970s in Colorado, but it has taken until now for scientists to get around to classifying them.