Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Texicans should spend some time in Utah
Specifically in Utah's Dinosaur National Monument. News reports tell us that a new species of dinosaur was found there.
Fossils of a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur have been found in slabs of Utah sandstone that were so hard that explosives had to be used to free some of the remains, scientists said Tuesday. The bones found at Dinosaur National Monument belonged to a type of sauropod - long-necked plant-eaters that were said to be the largest animal ever to roam land.Sadly the reports do not include any fossils of the humans who probably used the dinosaurs to commute back and forth to work. I suppose the Texicans will say this was a dino junkyard and the humans are buried elsewhere. Maybe the Mormons could lend the scientists their seer stones, Uma & Thurman, to help find that place.
The discovery included two complete skulls from other types of sauropods - an extremely rare find, scientists said.
The fossils offer fresh insight into lives of dinosaurs some 105 million years ago, including the evolution of sauropod teeth, which reveal eating habits and other information, said Dan Chure, a paleontologist at the monument that straddles the Utah-Colorado border.
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