Its arms had 5 fingers which may possibly have been used for scavenging. Two of the fingers were quite small. The remaining three fingers had sharp claws and could have been used to hold prey. Perhaps the most unique feature, for a dinosaur, that could be attributed to Eoraptor would be its light, hollow bones, especially considering that its eventual descendants would be relatives of some of the biggest creatures known to walk the earth.
With that said however, even the large theropods like Tyrannosaurus Rex had honeycombing within the bones to create a much lighter skeleton. It had long legs, a long tail, and a long head with many small, sharp teeth; however, it only weighed about 20 pounds.
Like most theropods, Eoraptor ate meat. But paleontologists suspect that it ate plants too because it had teeth normally associated with herbivores, as well as teeth normally associated with carnivores. So paleontologists tend to conclude it was an omnivore.
Paleontologists also suspect that it may have been a scavenger, which seems likely considering it was so small. Eoraptor lived in what is now modern day South America during the Triassic period. The first fossil of this small theropod-like dinosaur was found in the Ischigualasto Basin which is located in Argentina.
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