Alvareszaur dinosaurs 'rapidly shrank' to the size of a chicken 95 million years ago when they switched to exclusively eating ants, a new study has revealed. Haplocheirus sollers, Patagonykus puertai, Linhenykus monodactylus and Bannykus wulatensis, illustrating the body size and dieting change in alvarezsauroid dinosaurs over millions of years ALVARESZAUR: THE SHRINKING DINOSAUR Living during the Jurassic and into the …