dinosaur-lost world found in Arlington,Texas


	dinosaur-lost world found in Arlington,Texas

doodleicious

3-21-2009 8:14 PM

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doodleicious says:

lol-right down the street from a Starbucks

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3-23-2009 10:02 AM

tanyamm

Ahh, a nice refreshing beverage while you dig.

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Just down the road from the local Starbucks, a rich trove of 95-million-year-old dinosaurs, sharks, and other prehistoric beasts—and their feces—have been unearthed in Arlington, one of <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/states/state_texas.html">Texas</A>'s biggest cities (<A href="http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine#s=h&c=32.735600066719215,%20-97.1077197790146&z=8">map</A>), researchers said this week.
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Together the fossils help flesh out the very different Texas of the Cretaceous period, which lasted from 146 to 66 million years ago (<A href="http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/prehistoric-time-line.html">prehistoric time line</A>).
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The discoveries include a new, unnamed, mid-size species of theropod, part of the two-legged, predatory dinosaur group that included <I>Tyrannosaurus rex.</I> The site also contains the most complete skeleton to date of a <I>Protohadros,</I> one of the earliest known duck-billed dinosaurs. 
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Crocodiles, turtles, fish, and parts of ancient plants and trees—including a 6-foot (183-centimeter) log—were also found.
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At the time, Arlington would have been on a low-lying coastal plain. Here, swampy bogs transitioned gradually into shallow seas—a place not unlike the Mississippi River Delta today (<A href="http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine#s=r&c=29.58301169037749,%20-89.85443115234375&z=8">map</A>).
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