Eoraptor

Eoraptor lunensis was one of the world's earliest dinosaurs. It was a two-legged meat-eater that lived about 230 million years ago in the northwestern region of Argentina. Its name means "dawn plunderer from the Valley of the Moon", where it was originally discovered. Paleontologists believe the Eoraptor resembles the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. It is known from several well preserved skeletons.

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It had a thin body that grew to about 1 meter (3 feet) long, and weighed about 10 kilograms (22 pounds). It ran digitigrade, upright on its hind legs. Its arms were only half the length of its legs, and had five fingers on each hand. Three of those fingers, the longer of the five, ended in large claws and were used to handle prey. Scientists have surmised that the fourth and fifth fingers were too tiny to be of any use in hunting.

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