cockroaches -- had evolved millions of years before Fruitafossor lived, they said. Like anteaters, the Fruitafossor had tube-like teeth because it would have sucked in and swallowed its prey virtually whole, Luo and Wible found. Its four-toed limbs suggested it scratched in the dirt. Dated to the late Jurassic period, it would have lived alongside huge dinosaurs such as the brachiosaurus, stegosaurus and allosaurus. The name comes from the town of Fruita, Colorado, where the fossil was found, with "fossor" for the fossorial, or digging, specialization of the forelimbs. "Windscheffeli is in honor of Wally Windscheffel, who discovered the holotype specimen," the researchers added. --SP 2305 Local Time 2005 GMT
