Feisty Little Dinosaur Discovered In Venezuela

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    They're calling him the "Thief of Tachira," but this feisty little dinosaur just discovered in Venezuela doesn't sound like the sort that would have stolen many hearts.

    In fact, Tachiraptor admirabilis doesn't sound friendly at all.

    "Tachiraptor probably preyed upon any smaller animal he could catch," Max Langer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil and co-author of a paper describing the dinosaur, told Discovery News.

    Read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/08/dinosaur-venezuela-tachiraptor_n_5952510.html
     

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