Newly Discovered Dwarf Dinosaur Would "Make a Nice Pet"

Get to it, genetic engineers!

Reason Staff | 10.3.2012 12:34 PM

A new, tiny dinosaur with vampire-like fangs devoured … plants?

So says a new study of Pegomastax africanus, a 2-foot-long (0.6-meter-long) heterodontosaur that lived about 200 million years ago. (Test your dinosaur IQ.)

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Newly Discovered Dwarf Dinosaur Would "Make a Nice Pet"

Get to it, genetic engineers!

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