Friday, 29 October 2021

Big dinosaur was not a predator

 


Image courtesy of Anthony Romilio and Kamil Porembinski, CC by-SA2.0. 

Joel Kontinen

A  dinosaur living in Australia has the scientific press in a frenzy. Researchers say that it was 220 million years ago and thought it was  a fierce predator,

However, according to a new study,published in the  journal Historical Biology it t was a smaller, long-necked vegetarian. ,

Previously, scientist estimated that the creature had legs that measured 2 metres or 7 feet and that the animal was at least 6 metres or 20 feet long

Some dinosaurs were not so big

Source:

Weisberger,  Mindy, 2021, Triassic dinosaur with giant 'murder feet' wasn't so big after all, scientists find Live Science 22 October.