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fromArs Technica
23 hours ago

Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization

Alvarezsaurid miniaturization preceded dietary specialization on ants, challenging the theory that small body size evolved directly coupled to insectivory.
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1 week ago

A chicken-sized dinosaur related to T. rex debunks the hypothesis that its lineage shrank

A complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, one of the smallest nonavian theropods ever recorded, was discovered in Argentina and published in Nature, revealing a chicken-sized carnivorous dinosaur from 95 million years ago.
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