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	Like a Cow with Rows of Teeth!

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11-20-2007 10:54 AM

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sauropod, paleontologist, dinosaur, mesozoic era, sahara, national geographic museum, exhibit

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Sereno's research was partly funded by the National Geographic Society. An exhibit on <EM>Nigersaurus</EM>, including the original fossils and a reconstructed skeleton and skull of the dinosaur, will open today at the National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall. 
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A stout sauropod with a shovel-shaped muzzle mowed Earth's greenery about 110 million years ago like a cow with hundreds of tiny teeth, a paleontologist said today. 
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