Given that it weighed only as much as a domestic cat and probably ate only plants, a new species of dinosaur recently unveiled by an expert at the University of Chicago is not likely to compete with Tyrannosaurus rex in the affections of many dino-fans.
Except that Prof Paul Sereno has a certain way with words when it comes to describing the unusual beast. "It looks like a fanged vampire parrot," he told the Guardian. "And it probably had bristles, too. So it was a bristled, vampire parrot-like dinosaur."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/04/dinosaurs-fanged-vampire-parrot-identified?newsfeed=true
Except that Prof Paul Sereno has a certain way with words when it comes to describing the unusual beast. "It looks like a fanged vampire parrot," he told the Guardian. "And it probably had bristles, too. So it was a bristled, vampire parrot-like dinosaur."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/04/dinosaurs-fanged-vampire-parrot-identified?newsfeed=true