Albertavenator is a small dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 71 million years ago.
Its name means “Alberta hunter,” which comes from where it was discovered in Alberta, Canada.
Albertavenator is part of a group of dinosaurs known as theropods, which are meat-eating dinosaurs.
The only species in the Albertavenator genus is called A. curriei. It was named after the famous paleontologist Phil Currie.
Scientists first found a part of its skull, called a frontal bone, in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation during the 1990s.
The discovery of Albertavenator suggests that there might be many more small dinosaur species that we still don’t know about because it is often hard to identify them from the broken pieces of bones that are found.
Overall, the Albertavenator adds to our understanding of the variety of small dinosaurs from the past.