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Smallest known plant-eating dinosaur found in Canada

A team of paleontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have identified a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada. Albertadromeus syntarsus was identified from a partial hind leg, and other skeletal elements, that indicate it was a speedy runner. Approximately 1.6 m (5 ft) ...
Restaurants offer free lifetime burgers to Charles Ramsey for helping rescue kidnapped Cleveland women

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland, Ohio, house, will get free burgers for the rest of his life. Ramsey was eating a Big Mac and had to put it down to help rescue Amanda Berry and her daughter as well as Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Now more than a dozen northeast Ohio restaurants have pledged free burgers for Ramsey for the rest of his ...
Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey gets hamburgers for life

Heroic Charles Ramsey could be in line for reward CLEVELAND - The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his hometown again. More than two weeks after Charles Ramsey became an instant folk hero after telling his story to television reporters, Cleveland food blogger Michelle ...
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CLEVELAND -- The FBI is seeking information on the location of Darryl Whittington. He is to be considered armed and dangerous. On May 8, Whittington was indicted in the Northern District of Ohio on conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. An arrest warrant has been issued. Whittington, 50, stands about 6 feet tall and weighs 250 pounds. If anyone has any information ...
Man caught with gun at Hopkins Airport in court

CLEVELAND -- The man caught by TSA agents with a loaded gun in his carry-on baggage Wednesday was in court Thursday morning. James Forcina, 61, of Independence, waived a preliminary hearing in Cleveland Municipal Court and was allowed to post a personal bond. Information on the felony charge of carrying a cocealed weapon has been forwarded to the grand jury and the case was transferred to ...

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Smallest known plant-eating dinosaur found in Canada

A team of paleontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have identified a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada.

Albertadromeus syntarsus was identified from a partial hind leg, and other skeletal elements, that indicate it was a speedy runner. Approximately 1.6 m (5 ft) long, it weighed about 16 kg (30 lbs), comparable to a large turkey.

Albertadromeus lived in what is now southern Alberta in the Late Cretaceous, about 77 million years ago.

Albertadromeus syntarsus means "Alberta runner with fused foot bones". Unlike its much larger ornithopod cousins, the duckbilled dinosaurs, its two fused lower leg bones would have made it a fast, agile two-legged runner. This animal is the smallest known plant-eating dinosaur in its ecosystem, and researchers hypothesize that it used its speed to avoid predation by the many species of meat-eating dinosaurs that lived at the same time.

Albertadromeus was discovered in 2009 by study co-author David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum as part an on-going collaboration with Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to investigate the evolution of dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of North America. ...