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Dinosaur diaries: this is what dinosaurs evolved from – The Natural History Museum

The ancestors of dinosaurs were much smaller than you might think.

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From gigantic sauropods trampling through Jurassic forest and lumbering tank-sized stegosaurs, to enormous pterosaurs that ruled the skies, these two ancient groups of animals contained some of the largest animals ever to evolve.
But dinosaurs and pterosaurs didn’t begin their evolutionary journeys at such huge sizes.
A new paper by Christian Kammerer and his team from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the American Museum of Natural History shows that their early ancestors may …

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