Paleontologists rummaging through museum drawers in Canada have discovered the remains of North America’s smallest carnivorous dinosaur — a theropod about the size of a chicken.
RUNT OF THE LITTER Tiny Hesperonychus elizabethae (far left), North America’s smallest meat-eating dinosaur, probably weighed no more than a chicken and was dwarfed by many of its contemporary relatives (human shown for scale).
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