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Dwarf dinosaurs lived on "Neverland"-like island

By T.K. Randall
February 12, 2010 · Comment icon 5 comments

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Evidence of dwarf dinosaurs that never grew up has been found on an island in Transylvania.
In something akin to Peter Pan's Neverland the dinosaurs that once lived there would have stayed small and never truly grown up.
When Hungarian baron Franz Nopcsa claimed that his sister in 1895 found bones belonging to dwarf dinosaurs on his family's Transylvanian estate, many thought his claims were on par with Count Dracula fiction.


Source: MSNBC | Comments (5)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by SameerPrehistorica 15 years ago
There were dwarf dinosaurs from the beginning - Triassic. So ? is the difference that dinosaurs shrank during the Late Cretaceous in Romania ?
Comment icon #2 Posted by Wesker115 15 years ago
I knew MJ had chimps, but dinosaurs too? Isn't that pushing it a bit?!
Comment icon #3 Posted by Squidlet 15 years ago
That's interesting. It stands to reason there'd be dwarf dinosaurs somewhere, really. I gotta say, though, the reporter's blurb that the dinosaurs "never grew up" just rankled my feathers. If she'd paid a bit more attention in biology or actually knew what the original Peter Pan story was about, she'd know that "growing up" is about reaching maturity, not reaching a specific height.
Comment icon #4 Posted by BaneSilvermoon 15 years ago
An ancient version of Sumatra? Why is that surprising? Basic Island Biogeography.
Comment icon #5 Posted by behaviour??? 15 years ago
Paleontologists have discovered a prehistoric "lost world" which was ruled by miniature dinosaurs.Sort of a pigmy Jurassic Park, the island was the hometown of dinos who were up to eight times smaller than some of their mainland cousins, reports The Telegraph. Dwarf dinosaurs' fossils were found in what is now modern day Romania, in an area known as Hateg, which, 65 million years ago - when the creatures were living there - was an island, reports The Telegraph. Read more... Thanks B???


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