Swazard

Swazards are a family of primitive carnivorous theropod dinosaurs in a group known as Coelophysoidea (or Coelophysids). They were originally extinct since the Early Jurassic, but has since been brought back from extinction and were introduced accidentally into early Holocene Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas, by a family of time traveling humans who brought Coelophysids, wanting to keep them as pets, but the family's cages these dinosaurs were kept in were let open by accident, letting them spread across the world and diversified into wide variety of species over many centuries. Swazards are characterized by slender, skinny builds and long, narrow skulls with large fenestrae to allow for a lighter skull. They are fairly primitive theropods, and so have fairly basal characteristics, such as hollow air sacs in the cervical vertebrae and obligate bipedalism. Their slender builds allow them to be fast and agile runners. All known members of Coelophysoidea are carnivores. One species, the common swazard (Coelophysis bauri) has the oldest known furcula (wishbone) of any dinosaur. Like lions and some other predators, some species of swazards are cannibalistic and the common swazard was once thought to be a cannibal too, but it turns out this species is not one of these cannibalistic swazards and are instead caring parents. Depending on a species, they range from about the size of a chicken to about 16-18 feet long and weighing around 280-440 pounds.