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New dinosaur species found in China
Uzbekistan News.Net
Saturday 20th March, 2010 (IANS)
Paleontoligists in China Saturday claimed to have found the skeleton of a new species of carnivorous dinosaur that believed to have lived about 80 million years ago.
Experts have found an intact and complete skeleton fossil of a previously undiscovered dinosaur species in north China, the team's leading scientist Xu Xing said.
The species 'Linheraptor exquisitus' is the latest among the Dromaeosauridae family of the carnivorous theropod dinosaurs found so far.
The fossil was one of the world's most well-preserved specimen of small predator dinosaurs that lived about 80 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period, said Xu, a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
About 2.5-metre long and weighing 25 kg, the dinosaur would have been a fast and agile predator and, like other dromaeosaurids, possessed large 'killing claws'.
Xu said the new species documents a transitional stage in dromaeosaurid evolution from original ones with long and thin hind limbs to developed ones that were comparatively stronger.
The new dinosaur was found in the rocks of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region by an international team which consisted of members from China, the US and Britain, Xinhua reported.
The region is known for the huge presence of dinosaur fossils buried in aeolian rocks formed by sandstorm, which the experts believe killed the dinosaurs, resulting in comparatively intact preservation.  Email this story to a friend
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Dragon Rain
03-20-10, 07:35 PM |
New dinosaur species found in China
The Chinese are trying to claim this as their discovery? It was a Brit and an American who found this. Nationalism has outlived its usefulness in this world. Credit the people, wherever they are from, or live, or work, or dream about.
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Anonymous
03-20-10, 07:55 PM |
Learn to be an equal now
Mr. Rain, don’t get excited by the news report. The chinese announced new fossile was found and of course by group of people that include foreigners. The time of awarding whatever find to only westerners, like Sir Hilary in ascending the highest peak in Himalaya and discounting the effort of the lesser people is over.
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