Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs
Aug 06, 2020
1 minute
Dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs are some of the largest animals that ever lived, but a newly described fossil from Madagascar suggests that their ancestors were surprisingly small.
The fossilised, or ‘tiny bug slayer’ (derived from both Ancient Greek and the Malagasy language of Madagascar). The creature stood only 10 centimetres tall - about the size of a coffee cup.
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