1.   And, Olsen pointed out, scientists now believe that the small dinosaurs did survive.

2.   But the small dinosaur did not go down without a fight.

3.   Most of them think birds are descended from small carnivorous dinosaurs, but even that is in dispute.

4.   Most paleontologists think birds are descended from small carnivorous dinosaurs, but even that is in dispute.

5.   Qiang believes that Protarchaeopteryx falls evolutionally between the small dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx found in Liaoning last year and Archaeopteryx.

6.   Some small dinosaurs also seem to have been covered from head to tail in feathers, which scientists think is proof of a dinosaur-bird ancestral link.

7.   While most dinosaurs went extinct around that time, some small dinosaurs had already evolved into the first birds and survived the extinction.

8.   It is the botanical equivalent of a small dinosaur.

9.   The bones of the small dinosaur about the size of a German shepherd were discovered by a team of researchers led by University of Utah paleontologist Scott Sampson.