Coelophysis is a small dinosaur that lived approximately 200 million years ago in the Late Triassic Period. Coelophysis - which means “hollow form”–because this dinosaur had hollow bones. This dinosaur was about 9 feet long, 3 feet high and weighed about 100 pounds. Its hollow bone structure made it light and agile, a trait it needed to avoid some of the predators of the day. They were also one of the first dinosaurs to have wishbones, which helps solidify the whole dinosaur to avian connection. An interesting fact about this dinosaur is that at one point in time it was accused of cannibalism. That’s because small fossilized remains of reptiles were found in many of these dinosaur’s stomachs. But later Scientists eventually discovered that what was in these dinosaur’s stomach wasn’t their own young or even other dinosaurs, but archosaurs; the earliest living representations of crocodiles and birds. For about 60 years after it was discovered, there wasn’t much known about this dinosaur because there wasn’t a whole lot of fossils of it. However, in the late 1940s when the mother lode of Coelophysis fossils was discovered at New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch Quarry. So many of these dinosaurs were found there-thousands of them to be exact. Nothing like the name suggests, though a wishbone is a bone formed by the fusion of two clavicles in some birds and, recently discovered that, in dinosaurs too. The Coelophysis was among the first few dinos that had furcula and the interesting part is that they were not even closely related to birds.