14 DAY TRIAL // It was only yesterday that I got the chance to write about T. Rex's smaller cousin and its feeding habits. News from Canada says that researchers in southern Alberta might have discovered T. Rex's toothpick.
Joking aside, these paleontologists really did stumble upon a new dinosaur species, now known to the scientific community as Albertadromeus syntarsus, the official website for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology informs us.
Specialists explain that, following their analyzing the fossil evidence at their disposal, they reached the conclusion that the average Albertadromeus syntarsus weighed about 30 lbs (16 kg).
Because of this, some now say that this quick-footed vegetarian dino has high chances of being “crowned” the smallest plant-eating dinosaur thus far found in Canada.
“Albertadromeus may have been close to the bottom of the dinosaur food chain but without dinosaurs like it you'd not have giants like T. rex,” researcher Michael Ryan says.
Backing up his statement, Anthony Russell of the University of Calgary argues as follows:
“You can imagine such small dinosaurs filling the niche of animals such as rabbits and being major, but relatively inconspicuous, members of their ecological community.”
This dinosaur species roamed the Earth in the Late Cretaceous, roughly 77 million years ago.