Mini T. Rex: 'Welsh Dragon' May Be Earliest Jurassic Dinosaur

Two brothers hunting for ichthyosaur fossils along the coast of the United Kingdom came across something far more astounding: The bones of what may be the earliest known dinosaur from the Jurassic period in the U.K., and possibly even the world, a new study finds. After finding the bones in 2014, Rob Hanigan contacted his brother, Nick. Later, they reached out to paleontologists at the University of Portsmouth, who confirmed that the bones belonged to a theropod, a group of mostly meat-eating di