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Kongonaphon kely: Dinosaurs’ great-grandfather was a ‘tiny bug slayer’ – The New Daily
The mighty dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs may have come from a creature so small you could have held it in your hand.
The mighty dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs appear to have evolved from a creature so small you could have held it in your hand.
This is the story of a newly described species from Madagascar that lived around 237 million years ago, during the Triassic period.
“The fossil reptile, named Kongonaphon kely, or ‘tiny bug slayer’, would have stood just 10 centimetres (or about 4 inches) tall,” the American Museum of Natural History said in a statement.
Dr Christian Kammerer is a research curator in…
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