Fossil of Ant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered In China

thomst writes "Charles Q. Choi of LiveScience reports that a farmer in southern Henan Province in China has dug up the first known ant-eating dinosaur, a half-meter-long theropod (the dinosaur family to which T. Rex belongs), whose fossilized remains were described as 'fairly intact'. The 83- to 89-million-year-old pygmy dinosaur has been named named Xixianykus zhangi by Xig Xu, De-you Wang, Corwin Sullivan, David Hone, Feng-lu Han, Rong-hao Yan, and Fu-ming Du, whose paper on the critter, A basal parvicursorine (Theropoda: Alvarezsauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of China, was published in the March 29 issue of Zootaxa (the abstract is available in PDF format for free, the full article is paywall-protected.)"

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Re:Ant eating dinosaur?

[Grishnakh]

Hey now, there's no call for insults like that. For all you know, he could be dumb white trailer trash.

Or, he might not be dumb at all, and simply an unfortunate victim of the American public school system.

Re:I doubt it's been slashdotted...

[DNS-and-BIND]

Well! That totally fucking sucks. And after so much shouting and training of people to send &?print links.