Compsognathus

Meaning “jaw delicate”, the Compsognathus is a Dinosaure about the Saurischien S, of the group of the Théropode S and the family of the Compsognathidé S. It measured only one about sixty centimetres and weighed seldom more 2,5 Kg. Two fossils discovered in Bavaria, in Germany in the years 1850 and the south of the France into 1972 made it possible to the scientists to affirm that he lived during the Jurassic higher, from -155 to -150 million years.

Compsognathus was a having dinosaur of the small and fragile bones. It was a carnivore, as the shape of its crenelated and curved teeth indicates it backwards. Its long posterior legs and fines made a biped built of it to run very quickly. Its maximum speed is estimated at 64 km/h, which in fact probably the fastest Bipède having ever existed (it could have run the 100 meters in less than 6 seconds). Its forefeet were long and fine they also, and its hands counted only two long fingers, the third being atrophied. It undoubtedly made use of its hands like hooks to capture its preys: lizards (it was found by it one in what proved to be the site of its stomach), mammals and small insects. Its cranium was light and its tail was like the legs, long and fine, thus prolonging its body with the horizontal one. In addition, the bones of its legs were hollow.

It is thought that the dinosaur found in Germany lived at the edge of a peaceful lake, and that after its death, its corpse is descended at the bottom, and remained preserved by calm water while waiting for the process of Fossilisation.

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