Scientists Discover Extremely Tiny Dinosaur Ancestor in Madagascar - ScienceAlert

Its name was Kongonaphon kely, which means 'tiny bug slayer', and it was about the size of a coffee cup.

kely belonged to the ancient group Ornithodira: the last common ancestor of all the dinosaurs and pterosaurs that would one day reign in the bug slayer's wake.

These early examples of Ornithodira are known to be small, but with recent discoveries such as the tiny bug slayer, researchers are coming round to the idea that the smallness of discovered specimens is no accident.

In doing so, it's also possible that the shift to this tiny body helped K.

The tiny bug slayer didn't get to see or enjoy all that for itself, of course