LOS ANGELES (October 21, 2090--Scientists report that they have identified the fossilized bones of the smallest dinosaur ever discovered in North America.

The fossils were in the collection of the Dinosaur Institute of the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles for three decades.

The newly identified creature was about four inches tall, a little over two-feet long from head to tail and weighed about two pounds.

Researchers say it looked like a roadrunner on steroids and likely ate plants and hunted bugs during the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.

Details of the tiny dinosaur, which was labeled Fruitadens haagarorum, are in a British scientific journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.