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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online An international team of paleontologists, including Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Country's Dinosaur Institute has discovered a definitive way to determine the sex of an avian dinosaur species. The 125-million-year-old Mesozoic bird, Confuciusornis sanctus, had remarkable differences in plumage between specimens. Some had almost body length ornamental tail feathers, while others had none....

Scientists said Tuesday that fossil bones held at a Los Angeles museum belong to the smallest dinosaur discovered in North America, The Associated Press reported.The miniscule dino weighed in at less than two pounds and stood a mere 4 inches tall. Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County where the fossil bones are stored, said from head to tail, it measured a little over 2 feet long."It would have looked like a roadrunner on...