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New Dinosaurs Found in Antarctica

Posted by michael on from the land-of-the-lost dept.

WorkEmail writes "Two new species of dinosaur, one a quick-moving meat-eater and the other a giant plant-eater, have been discovered in Antarctica, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. The 70 million-year-old fossils of the carnivore would have rested for millenniums at the bottom of an Antarctic sea, while remains of the 100-foot-long (30 meter) herbivore were found on the top of a mountain."

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  1. Original Article... by authenticgeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't remember hearing about one of these since I was younger - I suppose my focus has shifted since then :) It still excites me nonetheless.

    Anyway, the original National Science Foundation article can be found here and contains a little more info and some better pictures.

  2. Re:Don't you mean by sinergy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry, but this isn't off-topic. This was a joke on this past week's Saturday Night Live about the banning of the word "evolution" in Georgia.

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  3. Re:Spiffy! by Kethinov · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, no. Star Trek Voyager showed us the Voth. A species which descended from dinosaurs and evolved into a space faring nomadic civilization. They left Earth before the ice age which makes THEM the first known species of dinosaurs to have survive the ice age...

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  4. Re:Antarctica and Jurassic Park by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sure. Lake Vostok. You can get most of the information about it from these sources, including the National Science Foundation fact sheet here.

    I'm glad I'm not the only one At the Mountains of Madness.

  5. Days late, but ah well... by cblguy · · Score: 2, Informative
    Too bad I missed this story the first time around.

    My son is 5, and I have strong fears that he's going to go in to the field of Paleontology. Rather than being a quasi-hip nerd like his old man (with a BSEE), he's looking to don the full Nerd jacket.

    I told him about these dinosaurs last week, he became very excited and wanted to know all about them. All he reads - all he wants as bedtime stories - all he plays with - are Dinosaurs. I've learned far more about the dinosaurs from helping him study than was ever available in "my day". Scientists have discovered TONS of "new" dinosaurs since the 1970s (when I was a kid). And my son can rattle them off like nobody's business. Want to know the difference between a hadrosaur and a sauropod? He can tell you, and then name off examples of each. Truly amazing at how much he's absorbed.

    If he continues this course, I'll probably end up taking him to Alberta, Canada, to the big dinosaur dig / museum up there. That looks pretty cool.

    PS - for a GREAT film, I higly recommend the BBK series Walking with Dinosaurs. You forget you're watching animation... It's that good.

    Hopefully somebody will read this, 3 days later... ;)