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New Dinosaur Discovered Head First
A team of paleontologists has discovered a new dinosaur species they're calling
Abydosaurus
, which belongs to the group of gigantic, long-necked, long-tailed, four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs such as
Brachiosaurus
. In a rare twist, they recovered four heads -- two still fully intact -- from a quarry in Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah. Complete skulls have been recovered for only eight of more than 120 known varieties of sauropod. Analysis of the bones indicates that the closest relative of
Abydosaurus
is
Brachiosaurus
, which lived 45 million years earlier.
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A team of paleontologists has discovered a new dinosaur species they're calling Abydosaurus, which belongs to the group of gigantic, long-necked, long-tailed, four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus. In a rare twist, they recovered four heads -- two still fully intact -- from a quarry in Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah. Complete skulls have been recovered for only eight of more than 120 known varieties of sauropod. Analysis of the bones indicates that the closest relative of Abydosaurus is Brachiosaurus, which lived 45 million years earlier.
