Complete baby Tyrannosaurid unearthed in Mongolia
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Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
The scientists uncovered a Tarbosaurus — related to the giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus — from a chunk of sandstone they dug up in August, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, said Takuji Yokoyama, a spokesman for the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, a co-organizer of the joint research project.
"We were so lucky to have found remains that turned out to be a complete set of all the important parts," he said.
After two years of careful preparatory work, scientists found that the fossilized skeleton only lacked neck bones and the tip of the tail.
Young dinosaur skeletons are hard to find in good condition because they often are destroyed by weather decay or because they were torn apart by predators.
The latest find would be a major step toward discovering the growth and development of dinosaurs, Yokoyama said.
The fossil, believed to have died at age 5, measured about 6.6 feet long, he said. Adult dinosaurs of the species are believed to have grown up to 40 feet.
The dinosaur, whose gender was unknown, came from a geological layer created about 70 million years ago in the late Cretaceous period.
The Japanese scientists and colleagues from the Center of Paleontology under the Mongolian Academy of Sciences have been jointly conducting dinosaur excavations in the Gobi Desert since 1993.
The Japanese museum is run by Hayashibara Co., a biotechnology firm based in Okayama, western Japan.
The scientists uncovered a Tarbosaurus — related to the giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus — from a chunk of sandstone they dug up in August, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, said Takuji Yokoyama, a spokesman for the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, a co-organizer of the joint research project.
"We were so lucky to have found remains that turned out to be a complete set of all the important parts," he said.
After two years of careful preparatory work, scientists found that the fossilized skeleton only lacked neck bones and the tip of the tail.
Young dinosaur skeletons are hard to find in good condition because they often are destroyed by weather decay or because they were torn apart by predators.
The latest find would be a major step toward discovering the growth and development of dinosaurs, Yokoyama said.
The fossil, believed to have died at age 5, measured about 6.6 feet long, he said. Adult dinosaurs of the species are believed to have grown up to 40 feet.
The dinosaur, whose gender was unknown, came from a geological layer created about 70 million years ago in the late Cretaceous period.
The Japanese scientists and colleagues from the Center of Paleontology under the Mongolian Academy of Sciences have been jointly conducting dinosaur excavations in the Gobi Desert since 1993.
The Japanese museum is run by Hayashibara Co., a biotechnology firm based in Okayama, western Japan.
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- JohnnyT426
- 2 months ago
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Great! I was hoping they would clone dinosaurs and open jurassic park before i got too old to enjoy it.
yeah right.-
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- Ras_Yuhanna
- 2 months ago
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Seriously.
How does this change the state of affairs for anyone?
Leave it to fox to publish quality news. eh hem, did i say news?-
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- Ras_Yuhanna
- 2 months ago
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This is cool! Ras, I think that it's important that we continue to find bones and study the animals that lived on the earth before us. It helps us in our understanding of history, our accuracy when portraying prehistoric animals and gives us new insights on our planet and the type of life it can hold.
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- DeliaTheArtist
- 2 months ago
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This is a great find for paleotogist. one step closer to proving that aves came from dinosaurs and that god does not exist.
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God just put this here to test our faith praise the lard
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- osagebowyer
- 2 months ago
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yes, praise the lard.
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- stephenthomson
- 2 months ago
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This is great - a rare insight into their development. And am I odd or doesn't the skeleton actually look quite cute?
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Japanese eat shark phins
and among many other delecacies.
i wonder if the phkers are going to deep frie the
dinosour and suck on the bone marrow.
did you see what they did to the dolphins,
that chick from Heroes is hot,
fried dino mmmmmm -
nice.... jurassic park resurrected
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We all know that god does not exist,
so ppuhleeeese....PRAISE THE LARD!!!!!!
Then fry up some baloney in it and make me a sammich!
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