Found in Utah by North Carolina State University researchers and paleontologists, the Fona herzogae was a small-framed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the Cenomanian age — about 100-66 million years ago.
“If you took, like, a Komodo dragon tail and attached it to the back of an ostrich, that’s kind of what Fona would have looked like,” researcher Haviv Avrahami told NPR.
Avrahami is a Ph.D student at North Carolina State University and was part of the team that identified this new dino.
Avrahami and his team also believe this new dino was a burrowing species, spending at least part of its life underground.
“Their family tree is, basically, like a giant black hole in paleontology knowledge,” Avrahami said.
Avrahami hopes that from his team’s discovery springs more knowledge about this small burrowing dinosaur and the life that it led millions of years ago.
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Found in Utah by North Carolina State University researchers and paleontologists, the Fona herzogae was a small-framed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the Cenomanian age — about 100-66 million years ago.
“If you took, like, a Komodo dragon tail and attached it to the back of an ostrich, that’s kind of what Fona would have looked like,” researcher Haviv Avrahami told NPR.
Avrahami is a Ph.D student at North Carolina State University and was part of the team that identified this new dino.
Avrahami and his team also believe this new dino was a burrowing species, spending at least part of its life underground.
“Their family tree is, basically, like a giant black hole in paleontology knowledge,” Avrahami said.
Avrahami hopes that from his team’s discovery springs more knowledge about this small burrowing dinosaur and the life that it led millions of years ago.
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