HIGHLIGHT: TEXAS
Dallas: About 120 million years ago, flocks of small dinosaurs bounded from plant to plant in an open floodplain southwest of what is now Fort Worth. They stood on two legs as they foraged for leaves and shoots. “They were birdlike and very agile, slender, fast-running dinosaurs,” says Kate Andrzejewski, a postdoctoral fellow at Southern Methodist University and lead author of a highly anticipated new paper in the journal PLOS ONE that describes these creatures for the first time. The dinosaurs, which she and her colleagues named Convolosaurus marri, make up the largest trove of dinosaur fossils ever discovered in Texas.