New Dinosaur Rears Its Head in Dinosaur National Monument

[arcadian]

http://www.nps.gov/dino/parknews/new-dinosaur.htm

A team of paleontologists from Dinosaur National Monument, Brigham Young University, and the University of Michigan has announced the discovery of a new, large, plant-eating dinosaur, Abydosaurus mcintoshi, (pronounced Ab-id-o-saurus mak-in-toshi). The discovery is described this week in the on-line first section of the science journal Naturwissenschaften.

The fossil remains were excavated from the 105-million-year-old Cedar Mountain Formation in Dinosaur National Monument. The new find contains rare and spectacular fossils, including the only complete sauropod skull in the entire Western Hemisphere from the last 80 million years of the Age of Dinosaurs.

“Because skulls are made up of many thin and fragile bones they are easily destroyed and rarely preserved. So although more than 120 species of sauropods have been discovered across the globe, complete skulls are extremely rare.” said Dr. Dan Chure, paleontologist at Dinosaur. “However, skulls are complex structures that provide a great deal of information about the dinosaur’s biology and evolution, so they are extremely important. You can hardly overstate the significance of these fossils.”

“Discovering a complete sauropod skull is remarkable. I've been collecting dinosaurs since the age of 14, and these complete skulls are the most spectacular fossils I've had the opportunity to work on” said BYU researcher Brooks Britt. “All the Abydosaurus fossils we have collected to date are juveniles, only a mere 25 feet or so in length. How large a fully adult individual was is unknown but it was certainly much larger. Although we haven’t found a complete skeleton yet, hope springs eternal in paleontology and we will continue excavations this summer.”

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[KittyWampus]

1. McIntoshi? So it's Irish? Oh, and how fun is this quote taken out of context-

"I've been collecting dinosaurs since the age of 14"

[HopeHoops]

2. Shouldn't it be called an iSaurus?

"We got a plant app for that."

[KittyWampus]

3. eep!

:D

[walldude]

4. LIES!!! ALL LIES!!! The World is 6000 years old and Satan planted

those bones just to test my faith.

















Satan wins.