The animal, no more than 10 cm tall, was named Kongonaphon kely, or “tiny bug killer.” According to scientists,
Image: Frank Ippolito / American Museum of Natural History
Previously it was believed that all early archosaurs -this is a larger group of reptiles - the body size was approximately the same at first, and then they began to grow. However, it has now become clear that these living creatures have evolved not only in the direction of enlargement, but also in the direction of reduction.
Judging by the wear of the teeth of a new kind, the creaturefed on insects. Perhaps the evolutionary decrease and lack of meat in the diet, for which there was serious competition among large predators, allowed the small ancestors of dinosaurs and pterosaurs to occupy a niche convenient for evolution.
Image: Alex Boersma
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