Wednesday, February 24, 2010

new dinosaur discovered

a new type of dinosaur called the Abydosaurus, which belongs to the group of gigantic, long-necked, long-tailed, four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus. They recovered four heads and two were still fully intact from a quarry in Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah. Complete skulls have been recovered for only eight of more than 120 known varieties of sauropod. Analysis of the bones indicated that the closest relative of the Abydosaurus is Brachiosaurus, which lived about 45 million years earlier. The four Abydosaurus specimens were all juveniles.

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