[Rockhounds] A newly discovered dinosaur may have spent part of its life underground

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

A new dinosaur discovery just hit the paleontology block — and this one was
a burrower.

Found in Utah by North Carolina State University researchers and
paleontologists, the *Fona herzogae* was a small-framed, plant-eating
dinosaur that lived in the Cenomanian age — about 100-66 million years ago.

“If you took, like, a Komodo dragon tail and attached it to the back of an
ostrich, that's kind of what *Fona *would have looked like,” researcher
Haviv Avrahami told NPR.

“It was a small dinosaur. It was about seven feet long, so probably would
have been as long as Shaq would have been if he was laying down,” Avrahami
said.

Avrahami and his team also believe this new dino was a burrowing species,
spending at least part of its life underground.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5046257/dinosaur-new-discovered-science-burrow