Looks Like a Duck, and Walks Like a Duck…
Then it MUST be 2 newly discovered DINOSAURS!
First:
–Excerpt from original
article by: Scott Norris
for National Geographic News
October 3, 2007
“A massive fossil skull found in southern Utah represents a new species of duck-billed dinosaur, researchers say.
The unusually well-preserved skull shows the duckbill was a muscular vegetarian, with hundreds of teeth and bulging jaws.
“It could have eaten whatever [vegetation] was in its way,” said lead researcher Terry Gates, a paleontologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
[...]
Gates and colleague Scott Sampson studied the skull, and concluded that it is a new species of hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur.
The species was given the scientific name Gryposaurus monumentensis in honor of the national monument where the skull was unearthed.”
Read full article at National Geographic.
News in Science article here.
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Second:
Excerpt from article at
LiveScience.com
” A strange, long-necked waddling dinosaur with massive arms and probably enormous claws has been discovered.
It walked only on its hind legs like the carnivorous dinosaurs from which it evolved, but Suzhousaurus megatherioides, meaning “giant sloth-like reptile from Suzhou,” was an herbivore, says researcher Daqing Li of the Third Geology and Mineral Resources Exploration Academy of Gansu Province in northwestern China, where the fossil specimen was found.
The creature belongs to a group of dinosaurs called therizinosaurs, characterized by long necks capped by small heads, massive arms and claws, and flaring ribs and hips that made their bodies very wide. [...]“
Read the entire (very detailed) article at LiveScience.com.
13 March, 2008 at 6:05 pm
that is very intristing