Eocursor: Prehistoric Beast of the Week

This week we are going to check out a little dinosaur that gives us insight into the origins of some of the most iconic dinosaurs, Eocursor parvus!  Eocursor translates to "Dawn Runner" because it was a very early dinosaur and its extremely long legs show us that it was probably a fast runner.  From snout to tail it only measured about 3 feet (roughly 1m) and was a plant-eater.  It lived about 210 million years ago in what is now South Africa and was discovered in the 1990s but wasn't formally d