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For dinosaur specialists, the real "jaw dropper," according to Sereno, is the comparison between eodromaeus and its equally small companion, eoraptor, a species Sereno and colleagues named in 1993.
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The new finding makes clear that eodromaeus roamed the planet earlier than eoraptor.
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Some of the features we see in eodromaeus — like the grasping hands — you find 150 million years later in Tyrannosaurus rex, right before the asteroid hit, he says, meaning the mass extinction of 65 million years ago when a massive cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs.
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The tiny eodromaeus pronounced ee-oh-DRO-mus murphi, or "dawn runner," weighed only 10 to 15 pounds and was about four feet from snout to tail tip.
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But even this early, eodromaeus contains most of the typical traits we associate with dinosaurs.
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Back then, eoraptor was tapped as a small predator, an early theropod like eodromaeus.
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The tiny eodromaeus pronounced ee-oh-DRO-mus murphi, or "dawn runner," weighed only 10 to 15 pounds and was about four feet from snout to tail tip.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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Back then, eoraptor was tapped as a small predator, an early theropod like eodromaeus.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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For dinosaur specialists, the real "jaw dropper," according to Sereno, is the comparison between eodromaeus and its equally small companion, eoraptor, a species
USATODAY.com News 2011
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The tiny eodromaeus pronounced ee-oh-DRO-mus murphi, or "dawn runner," weighed only 10 to 15 pounds and was about four feet from snout to tail tip.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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