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World's smallest dinosaur tracks discovered

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What the dinosaurs may have looked likeImage source, Dr Anthony Romilio

Teeny tiny footprints of a 110-million-year-old dinosaur have been discovered.

The creature's thought to have been the size of a small bird and could've been held in your hand - if you were around back then that is!

The footprints are about 1cm long and were found in South Korea in Asia by a team of scientists.

They're thought to be from meat-eating dinosaurs known as raptors, that placed two of their toes on the ground, while the third toe was held back like a cat's claw.

Image source, Professor Kyung Soo Kim
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Can you spot the tiny dinosaur tracks in this picture?

Luckily the lake deposits where the tracks were discovered allowed the tiny footprints to be preserved so well and tracks like this are rarely found in other places.

But one thing the scientists are still unsure of is whether the footprints are from a small adult dinosaur or a baby dinosaur.