Named Eodromaeus murphi by Ricardo Martinez, Paul Sereno and colleagues, this early dinosaur is currently represented by a partial skeleton which is still missing a few parts of the skull, tail ...

Pint-sized Eodromaeus (dawn runner) weighed only 10 to 15 pounds and measured about 4 feet in length from snout to tail tip. It lies very close to the ancestor of all meat-eating dinosaurs ...

Back at the dawn of the dinosaur era, a quick-moving predator set the stage for the famous and fearsome giants that followed in its footsteps, according to new research. "It was a little dinosaur ...

Eodromaeus' plant-eating twin The area was once a verdant valley, judging by all the petrified wood found there. Sediments covered the skeletons over a period of 5 million years, eventually ...

Eodromaeus joins its kin Eoraptor, a similar-sized dinosaur known to have lived in the same time and place. In fact, when researchers first unearthed Eodromaeus they thought the bones belonged to ...

Eodromaeus, with stabbing canine teeth and sharp-clawed grasping hands, is the pint-sized precursor to later meat-eaters called theropods, and eventually to birds.

"Eodromaeus gives us the earliest picture of this predatory line," says Paul Sereno, lead author of the new study, "but in the course of making this discovery we realized that Eoraptor was ...

Eodromaeus was about 4-foot-long and weighed up to 15 pounds, says paleontologist Published January 13, 2011 • Updated on January 13, 2011 at 11:15 pm BOOKMARKER ...

What may be the earliest known relative of T. rex and all meat-eating dinosaurs has been discovered. The dog-sized mini-predator would've made its future relatives proud as it fed on small ...

Reporting in the journal Science, Paul Sereno, Ricardo Martinez and colleagues describe Eodromaeus murphi. This dinosaur was 4 feet long, weighed 15 pounds and lived 230 million years ago, just a ...

This recently discovered dinosaur is Eodromaeus, which rather poetically means “dawn runner.” This ancient beast was a lanky creature, more neck and tail than anything else.