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Ancestor of T rex unearthed
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by Mon-Mage | August 5, 2008 at 09:28 am
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The t-rex's ancestor which lived about 200 million years ago was unearthed in a diggin in southern Poland. It was about 5 meters long and it's biggest tooth was about 7 centimeters long.
WARSAW: Paleontologists digging in a brickyard in southern Poland have discovered the remains of a dinosaur they say is a previously unknown ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex.
The predator dinosaur, given the working name "the Dragon", lived around 200 million years ago, team member doctor Tomasz Sulej of the Polish Science Academy said.
It was five metres long and moved on two legs. Its longest teeth were 7 centimetres long. "This is a completely new type of dinosaur that was so far unknown," Sulej said. "Nobody even expected that members of this group lived in that time, so this gives us new knowledge about the whole evolution of the T rex group." The remains were excavated from a brickyard in Lisowice village about 200 km from Warsaw.
The bones will be further examined prior to giving it an actual name besides "the dragon". A predecessor of mammals called the dicynodon was also found at the same location.
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at 11:02 on August 5th, 2008
Interesting find!
at 16:13 on August 5th, 2008
This photo taken at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Visit the rest of my photo's at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrtopher
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at 16:50 on August 5th, 2008
This T-Rex skeleton head can be seen in the London Museum of Natural History - beware the crowds 'though!
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at 21:44 on August 5th, 2008
Royal Ontario Museum.
Toronto, Canada.
at 00:31 on August 6th, 2008
Photo Taken at The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
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at 14:30 on August 6th, 2008
Amazing find. If only there was an actual link with dragons, if such a creature ever existed...
at 21:23 on August 6th, 2008
Photo of T-Rex taken at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada. Eric said, "I'm not afraid of him. He's just skull and bones."
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at 06:46 on August 10th, 2008
T-REX @ National History Museum NYC
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