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The Smallest Dinosaur In South America Just Answered A 90 Million Year Question

Scientists have spent decades puzzling over one of the strangest groups of dinosaurs that ever walked the Earth, and a tiny fossil from the mountains of Argentina just handed them the answers they have been waiting for. Researchers from the University of Minnesota uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a bird-like dinosaur called Alnashetri in the fossil-rich region of Patagonia, and what they found has completely rewritten the accepted timeline of how this unusual creature and its relatives evolved and eventually spread across the entire ancient world. The dinosaur weighed less than two pounds fully grown, making it one of the smallest non-bird dinosaurs ever discovered in South America, and its near-perfect condition after 90 million years in the ground left the entire research team stunned. The lead researcher called it a paleontological Rosetta Stone, meaning it finally gave scientists a reliable reference point to make sense of all the incomplete and confusing pieces that had been found before.

Before this discovery, most well-preserved fossils from this group had only ever been found in Asia, leaving a massive and frustrating gap in the evolutionary story that scientists could not fill. The new skeleton revealed that these dinosaurs shrank down to tiny sizes first, long before they developed the strange stubby arms and specialized diet that their later relatives became famous for. Microscopic examination of the bones confirmed the animal was fully grown and at least four years old, proving these creatures stayed small throughout their entire lives rather than shrinking with age. Scientists now believe the whole group appeared much earlier than previously thought and spread across the globe while the continents were still connected as one enormous landmass, which explains why their fossils have since turned up scattered from South America all the way to Asia.

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260309225231.htm

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