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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled a new dinosaur discovered four years ago in southern Utah that proves giant tyrant dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex were around 10 million years earlier than previously believed.
A full skeletal replica of the carnivore the equivalent of the great uncle of the T. rex was on display at the Natural History Museum of Utah alongside a 3-D model of the head and a large painted mural of the dinosaur roaming a shoreline.
It was the public's first glimpse at the new species, which researchers named Lythronax argestes (LY'-throw-nax ar-GES'-tees). The first part of the name means "king of gore," and the second part is derived from poet Homer's southwest wind.
The fossils were found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in November 2009, and a team of paleontologists spent the past four years digging them up and traveling the world to confirm they were a new species.
more..http://news.yahoo.com/tyrannosaur-discovered-southern-utah-195305192.html
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)But... "a new dinosaur" ?
Lol. Where does the AP find these genius writers?
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Orrex
(63,169 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)Have underwear... but if it did.. things would be different on this planet!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Just hope that's the one you don't get assigned to when it's your time.
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)This is the satan hiding bones and tricking us into believing in dinosaurs so we stop going to church.
That might be funny if people didn't believe things like that.
Raulrosendo
(4 posts)gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)an LDS picnic.
On the positive side, they're developing some new cancer fighting drugs synthesized from a wierd jello salad with olives and shrimp in it.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)Too freakin' cool. I'd love to hear that thing roaming the canyon behind my house.
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)He might shut the coyotes up. Whatever that noise is they make creeps me out. It's not a howl or bark, it's just freakin' creepy.
The sound of a dinosaur? Way cool!
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...but I do remember the theme song. Beautiful work. It won't shut the coyotes up, though.