Scientists Discover New Dinosaur in Utah

[tocqueville]

By BROCK VERGAKIS, Associated Press Writer
14 minutes ago

SALT LAKE CITY - Fossils found in southern Utah five years ago are a new dinosaur that resembled a brightly colored, 7-foot tall turkey which could run at speeds up to 25 mph when it roamed the Earth about 75 million years ago, paleontologists said Tuesday.

Fossils of the meat-eater's hand-like claw and foot were found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near the Arizona border, giving scientists reason to believe the raptor group once roamed from Canada to northern New Mexico.

Scientists are calling the dinosaur Hagryphus giganteus, or giant four-footed, birdlike god of the Western desert. Much smaller variations of this dinosaur had only been found in Montana, South Dakota and the Canadian province of Alberta.

Finding the fossils in southern Utah doubles the range that this group of raptors was thought to have inhabited and almost assures that similar discoveries will be made in Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming, said Lindsay Zanno, a doctoral student at the University of Utah, who named the dinosaur. Discoveries like this don't happen every day, she said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060405/ap_on_sc/feathered_dinosaur_1

[OutsidetheBox]

1. Is its name Orrin Hatch??

[greekspeak]

2. Orrinsis Hatchionus

Its known for its plodding and blinder wearing.

[OutsidetheBox]

5. I heard it became extinct in 2010 after helping ruin America

Dumbshitorrinius Hatchosaurus

[tocqueville]

3. sounds more like roadrunner...

beep beep

[rpannier]

4. Satan is busy again

Putting down more bones to disrupt our faith. But 'good' Christians everywhere will not be fooled. Why believe scientists on issues of science, when they can believe some guy who has a degree in theology and wouldn't know the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell.

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. self delete

[OutsidetheBox]

7. Did the critter have multiple wives??

[Chef]

8. 75 Million Years?

Everyone knows the bible teaches through the "begats" that the earth is only 6,000 years old. Must be a mistake.

[Liberty Belle]

9. Republicanus Raptor?

[NickB79]

10. A toothless raptor?

It sounds more like a therinzosaur from the description of the large clawed hands and toothless beak, or even an ornithomimid.

[xchrom]

11. a 7 foot turkey!

maybe i'll eat chicken for thanksgiving from now on -- you know just in case there is some kinda reincarnation thingy.