• Dino News 26.10.2008

    In this undated photo released by the University of Utah, geologist Winston Seiler poses next a trackway, or set of prints made by the same dinosaur, as it walked through a wet, sandy oasis some 190 million years ago in what is now the Coyote Buttes North area straddling the Utah-Arizona border. Seiler and Marjorie Chan, chair of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah, published a new study in the October issue of the science journal Palaios showing that numerous impressions at the site are dinosaur tracks, not erosion-caused potholes as was believed previously. (AP Photo/University of Utah, Nicole Miller)     	 	Credit: Nicole Miller.LiveScience.com – A “dinosaur graveyard” full of fossils has been discovered in a former river bed in Utah, presenting an opportunity for a decade’s worth of Jurassic research by paleontologists, it was announced this week.

    Scientists and technicians with the Utah Thornbury Dinosaur Expedition unearthed an abundance of sauropod (an herbivorous long-necked dinosaur) finds, as well as the bones of several carnivorous dinosaurs, said paleontologist Luis Chiappe, director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Dinosaur Institute. …


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