Troodon

Troodon was a dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era.  Troodon was "gifted" by dinosaur standards.  In biology one measure of intelligence is brain to body ratio...that is, the size of an animal's brain compared to its overall body size.  Troodon wins in that calculation so it is thought to have been a very intelligent dinosaur.  This ration is similar to that found in modern birds.  Don't sell the bird class of animals short.  We say mistakenly "bird brain."  In fact, birds are very intelligent.  For example, hummingbirds can remember the location of every flower they have ever visited.  Troodon  was a raptor dinosaur, probably had feathers, and lived in what were probably forests boarded by open plains.   They were small, about 8 feet (2.5 m) long and maybe 3 feet (.9 m) tall. They probably weighed 110 lbs (50 kg)  Troodons were probably pack hunters, like wolves.  They probably could, working in a hunting pack, bring down larger prey like Hadrosaurs...the duck billed dinosaurs.

Troodon in the Forest

There are two known species of Troodon.  Scientific names have two parts.  Troodon is the Genus name and so to state the full scientific name you say the Genus and species.  You do not capitalize the species name but you DO capitalize the Genus name.  The first species of Troodon was found in 1856 and it was called Troodon formosus and the second found was in 1935 and is called 

Troodon inequalis.