Scipionyx samniticus is a piscivorous Compsognathid from early Cretaceous Italy. It was 12 inches (30 cm) and weighed about 5 lbs. Known only from a hatchling, so no one knows how big this dinosaur would grow. The only known specimen had fossilized soft tissue.
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