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New dinosaur discovered that looked like “two-legged porcupine”

Posted at 8:21 PM, Oct 07, 2012
and last updated 2012-10-07 20:21:29-04

A University of Chicago scientist says he's discovered a new dinosaur. 

Paul Serano says the "Pegomastax Africanus" would have looked something like a "two- legged porcupine."

He also says the animal was less than two-feet long and weighed less than a house cat. 

While Serano is the first to describe the species, it was actually excavated in the 1960s. 

Scientists say the dinosaur lived about 200 million years ago.