First dinosaur tracks found in Arabian Peninsula


	First dinosaur tracks found in Arabian Peninsula

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5-21-2008 9:11 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d4a8713f-bb57-4b3d-ba12-d8371c679ac1/FDCF9F28-66D2-48EB-8F3D-5C9FA4807837/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/dinosaur_yemen_dc_3" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/dinosaur_yemen_dc_3" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/dinosaur_yemen_dc_3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/4F314F9B-574F-46EF-ABF9-8C7EE6EF70DE" alt="Researchers at the site of a newly-discovered sauropod in the Republic of Yemen in an undated photo. Scientists have discovered the tracks of a herd of 11 long-necked sauropods walking along a coastal mudflat in what is now the Republic of Yemen, the first discovery of dinosaur footprints on the Arabian peninsula. (Nancy Stevens/Handout/Reuters)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/dinosaur_yemen_dc_3">Scientists have discovered the tracks of
a herd of 11 long-necked sauropods walking along a coastal
mudflat in what is now the Republic of Yemen, the first
discovery of dinosaur footprints on the Arabian peninsula.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/dinosaur_yemen_dc_3"><P>Sauropods, the largest land animals in earth's history,
walked on four stout legs and ate plants.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/dinosaur_yemen_dc_3"><P>"The nice thing is we finally filled in a bit of a blank
spot in the dinosaur map," said Anne Schulp, a palaeontologist
at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, who worked
on the study.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/dinosaur_yemen_dc_3"><P>The creatures roamed the Earth from about 228 million years
ago to 65 million years ago, the middle of the age of
dinosaurs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/dinosaur_yemen_dc_3"><P>Paleontologists have so far unearthed only a few dinosaur
fossils from the Arabian peninsula and possible fragments of a
long-necked dinosaur from <SPAN id="lw_1211373635_0" class="yshortcuts">Yemen</SPAN>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FDCF9F28-66D2-48EB-8F3D-5C9FA4807837/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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