The Dinosaur Missing Link
The dinosaurs may all be gone, but that doesn't stop new species from turning up all the time — at least in their decidedly more peaceable, fossilized form. The latest addition to the dino list: the Daemonosaurus chauliodus, which lived 205 million years ago — during the end of the Triassic period — in what is now Argentina and Brazil. A fleet bipedal beast about the size of a large Irish Setter, the Daemonosaurus is important because it's a basal (or primitive) form of the bipedal dinos known as Theropods, which were thought to have vanished millions of years earlier. This one is a transitional species between the earlier models and the more modern ones that appeared in the Jurassic. For humans, that would be like finding the fabled missing link — albeit one with much sharper teeth.