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Scientists Discover 'Koreaceratops': First Horned Dino From Korea
FoxNews ^ | December 6, 2010

Posted on 12/08/2010 2:18:55 PM PST by EveningStar

Triceratops has a new cousin -- one from a distant continent, that is.

Scientists from South Korea, the United States and Japan just announced the discovery of a new horned dinosaur, based on an analysis of fossil evidence found in South Korea. Dubbed "Koreaceratops" after its country of origin, the new dinosaur fossil was found in 2008 in a block of rock along the Tando Basin reservoir.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: dinosaur; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; korea; koreaceratops; paleontology

1 posted on 12/08/2010 2:19:06 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Tamar1973

Lookee! :)


2 posted on 12/08/2010 2:20:01 PM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar
TUNGIL!! (Reunification)
3 posted on 12/08/2010 2:20:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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To: EveningStar

Insert Kim Jong joke here.


4 posted on 12/08/2010 2:25:12 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: EveningStar
Lived on a diet of kimchee. Killed off other dinosaurs with greenhouse gasses.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

5 posted on 12/08/2010 2:33:10 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: EveningStar
The newly identified genus, Koreaceratops hwaseongensis, lived about 103 million years ago during the late Early Cretaceous period.

Thus making it slightly newer than most of the aircraft in North Korea's air force.
6 posted on 12/08/2010 2:36:52 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: EveningStar

Maybe it was Godzilla’s third cousin removed.


7 posted on 12/08/2010 3:22:45 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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Triceratops ‘Never Existed’ —
Three-horned fossils are actually juvenile torosauruses
Newser | August 3, 2010 | Rob Quinn
Posted on 11/09/2010 7:32:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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8 posted on 12/09/2010 6:34:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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9 posted on 12/09/2010 6:53:57 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: EveningStar
Scientists Discover 'Koreaceratops': First Horned Dino From Korea

Funny?!? But it doesn't look Korean.
It's 'something' about the eyes ....???


10 posted on 12/09/2010 7:29:57 AM PST by Condor51 (SAT CONG!)
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To: EveningStar; SunkenCiv

This means war!

11 posted on 12/09/2010 12:18:02 PM PST by colorado tanker
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