These really were strange dwarf dinosaurs, as had first been predicted a century before by visionary man of science and Transylvanian aristocrat Franz Baron Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, who found the first of these dinosaurs on his family estate in the 1890s. Nopcsa rode a motorbike, was a spy in various Balkan states in the years preceding and during World War I, was briefly considered for the throne of the nascent kingdom of Albania, and eventually killed himself and his long-time secretary and boyfriend Bajazid Doda in double murder–suicide in 1933, just a few months after Adolf Hitler swept
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