PermeateFree said:

Sparrow-sized raptors left the smallest dinosaur footprints ever found

>>Most of the records that dinosaurs break are in the “world’s largest” category – the biggest foot, the largest land animal to ever walk the Earth, that kind of thing. But now palaeontologists have discovered the smallest dinosaur tracks ever found, which were made by a previously-unknown species of raptor the size of a sparrow.<<

https://newatlas.com/worlds-smallest-dinosaur-footprints/57286/

I have a cartoon about small feathered dinosaurs somewhere. Here we go.

Bottom row, third from the left. This was smaller than a sparrow.

The image below it is where I got my version from, These are scansoriopterygid dinosaurs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scansoriopterygidae

PermeateFree said:

PermeateFree said:

Sparrow-sized raptors left the smallest dinosaur footprints ever found

>>Most of the records that dinosaurs break are in the “world’s largest” category – the biggest foot, the largest land animal to ever walk the Earth, that kind of thing. But now palaeontologists have discovered the smallest dinosaur tracks ever found, which were made by a previously-unknown species of raptor the size of a sparrow.<<

https://newatlas.com/worlds-smallest-dinosaur-footprints/57286/

Dromaeosauriformipes rarus. These 110-million-year-old footprints. Smallest dinosaur footprints.

Discovered in the Jinju Formation in South Korea, each of the footprints measures about 1 cm (0.4 in) long. Although they resemble modern bird tracks, they only have two toes, indicating they were made by raptors. That’s because raptors, as you might remember from Jurassic Park, hold their clawed third toe off the ground in a curved position.

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

PermeateFree said:

Sparrow-sized raptors left the smallest dinosaur footprints ever found

>>Most of the records that dinosaurs break are in the “world’s largest” category – the biggest foot, the largest land animal to ever walk the Earth, that kind of thing. But now palaeontologists have discovered the smallest dinosaur tracks ever found, which were made by a previously-unknown species of raptor the size of a sparrow.<<

https://newatlas.com/worlds-smallest-dinosaur-footprints/57286/

Dromaeosauriformipes rarus. These 110-million-year-old footprints. Smallest dinosaur footprints.

Discovered in the Jinju Formation in South Korea, each of the footprints measures about 1 cm (0.4 in) long. Although they resemble modern bird tracks, they only have two toes, indicating they were made by raptors. That’s because raptors, as you might remember from Jurassic Park, hold their clawed third toe off the ground in a curved position.

I wonder if they hung around the bigger dinosaurs and ate scraps and/or parasites on the bodies, like some birds do

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

Sparrow-sized raptors left the smallest dinosaur footprints ever found

>>Most of the records that dinosaurs break are in the “world’s largest” category – the biggest foot, the largest land animal to ever walk the Earth, that kind of thing. But now palaeontologists have discovered the smallest dinosaur tracks ever found, which were made by a previously-unknown species of raptor the size of a sparrow.<<

https://newatlas.com/worlds-smallest-dinosaur-footprints/57286/

Dromaeosauriformipes rarus. These 110-million-year-old footprints. Smallest dinosaur footprints.

Discovered in the Jinju Formation in South Korea, each of the footprints measures about 1 cm (0.4 in) long. Although they resemble modern bird tracks, they only have two toes, indicating they were made by raptors. That’s because raptors, as you might remember from Jurassic Park, hold their clawed third toe off the ground in a curved position.

I wonder if they hung around the bigger dinosaurs and ate scraps and/or parasites on the bodies, like some birds do

you would think that if there is a niche something would fill it.

JudgeMental said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Dromaeosauriformipes rarus. These 110-million-year-old footprints. Smallest dinosaur footprints.

Discovered in the Jinju Formation in South Korea, each of the footprints measures about 1 cm (0.4 in) long. Although they resemble modern bird tracks, they only have two toes, indicating they were made by raptors. That’s because raptors, as you might remember from Jurassic Park, hold their clawed third toe off the ground in a curved position.

I wonder if they hung around the bigger dinosaurs and ate scraps and/or parasites on the bodies, like some birds do

you would think that if there is a niche something would fill it.

Exactly