Tiny dinosaur that looked like an owl hunted like one, too :

Tiny dinosaur that looked like an owl hunted like one, too
Mindy Weisberger
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An artistic reconstruction of two night-hunting Shuvuuia deserti emphasizes the dinosaur's resemblance to an owl.
A tiny, meat-eating dinosaur had superb low-light vision and hearing that was likely as good as an owl's. And like an owl, the wee dinosaur probably used those exceptional abilities to stalk and catch its desert prey under the cover of darkness.
Owl-like
Shuvuuia (shu-VU-ya) was a theropod — a three-toed and bipedal carnivorous dinosaur. There's only one known species,
Shuvuuia deserti, and it was smaller than a domestic cat, measuring just 2 feet (0.6 meters) long.

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