Fossil of Ant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered In China

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @03:29PM from the ancient-picnic-defender dept.

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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Ant-eating? or Termite eating? by Dyinobal · 2010-03-31 15:36 · Score: 1, Interesting

ant-eating? in the same sense that our modern ant eaters don't eat ants at all?
Am I the only one that .... by TheRealQuestor · 2010-03-31 15:43 · Score: 4, Interesting

Doesn't believe one single story on any website starting about noon March 31st to April 2nd? Just sayin'