New Dinosaur Species Found in India

AP ^ | August 13, 2003 | RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM

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New Dinosaur Species Found in India

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By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM, Associated Press Writer

BOMBAY, India - U.S. and Indian scientists said Wednesday they have discovered a new carnivorous dinosaur species in India after finding bones in the western part of the country.

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The new dinosaur species was named Rajasaurus narmadensis, or "Regal reptile from the Narmada," after the Narmada River region where the bones were found.

The dinosaurs were between 25-30 feet long, had a horn above their skulls, were relatively heavy and walked on two legs, scientists said. They preyed on long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs on the Indian subcontinent during the Cretaceous Period at the end of the dinosaur age, 65 million years ago.

"It's fabulous to be able to see this dinosaur which lived as the age of dinosaurs came to a close," said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. "It was a significant predator that was related to species on continental Africa, Madagascar and South America."

Working with Indian scientists, Sereno and paleontologist Jeff Wilson of the University of Michigan reconstructed the dinosaur skull in a project funded partly by the National Geographic (news - web sites) Society.

A model of the assembled skull was presented Wednesday by the American scientists to their counterparts from Punjab University in northern India and the Geological Survey of India during a Bombay news conference.

Scientists said they hope the discovery will help explain the extinction of the dinosaurs and the shifting of the continents — how India separated from Africa, Madagascar, Australia and Antarctica and collided with Asia.

The dinosaur bones were discovered during the past 18 years by Indian scientists Suresh Srivastava of the Geological Survey of India and Ashok Sahni, a paleontologist at Punjab University.

When the bones were examined, "we realized we had a partial skeleton of an undiscovered species," Sereno said.

The scientists said they believe the Rajasaurus roamed the Southern Hemisphere land masses of present-day Madagascar, Africa and South America.

"People don't realize dinosaurs are the only large-bodied animal that lived, evolved and died at a time when all continents were united," Sereno said.

The cause of the dinosaurs' extinction is still debated by scientists. The Rajasaurus discovery may provide crucial clues, Sereno said.

India has seen quite a few paleontological discoveries recently.

In 1997, villagers discovered about 300 fossilized dinosaur eggs in Pisdura, 440 miles northeast of Bombay, that Indian scientists said were laid by four-legged, long-necked vegetarian creatures.

Indian scientists said the dinosaur embryos in the eggs may have suffocated during volcanic eruptions.

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Here's one you'll enjoy.

Pretty Pictures!

[VadeRetro]

Too sophisticated. Do you have a comic book?

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

See how ya are? Sheesh. I thought since you were a big fan of 'pretty pictures' you would enjoy some of the ones he has posted on his site. I especially liked the Pengu-Saurus.

Oh well, perhaps some of the lurkers will appreciate it.

[RightWingNilla]

One of these days I'll be watching MNF and see some player getting a round of high-fives for successfully tying his shoes...

Nah, their agents take care of that.

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

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Jesus, Dinosaurs, and More

FRegards, MM

[RightWingNilla]

Indicating the same designer, not the same ancestor.

Perhaps you can explain why a designer would put the same errors in related species.

[VadeRetro]

Ping me when he gets his Nobel.

[RightWingNilla]

The pic of a T-Rex holding the Bible is quite bizzare.

[Ichneumon]

Perhaps you can explain why a designer would put the same errors in related species.

Especially why a designer postulated to be omniscient and omnipotent would choose to do so.

[BMCDA]

LOL!! I like that letter-puking dinosaur at the bottom of the page ;^)

[BMCDA]

Now isn't that obvious? It's to make it look as if evolution really happened ;^)

[Ichneumon]

Now isn't that obvious? It's to make it look as if evolution really happened

Then perhaps we'd better believe Him, if that's what He's trying to make us believe.

[Junior]

Placemarker.

[DittoJed2]

They are classified as such by human beings. What I am saying is that you can not take the pie, inject it with icing and call it a cake. You have a pie with icing (yuck!). You do not have a species with certain genetic information and have it developing into a creature whose genetic information it does not possess. There are specific elements which make us humans and apes apes. Evolution hasn't even come close to proving that humans and apes share the same ancestor, nor will they because they are completely different kinds of beings.

[DittoJed2]

I don't care how many generations it hypothesizes. What it says is that classical Darwinianism did not deliver on the answers to an evolutionary scientist's questions, did not show what it promised, so this fellow (or fellows) had to come up with a revised theory to try to explain the record.

[DittoJed2]

As you said, whether they are indeed feathers is debatable even in evolutionary circles. And, as I said, feathered dinosaurs don't equal transitional species any more than hairy long tailed dogs equal cats.

[DittoJed2]

ROFL! They are in the BEAR family. It would not surprise me to see different types of bear mating and having offspring. It would surpise me to see a dog and a cat mating and having offspring. Would probably surpise them too!

[DittoJed2]

Pictures aside, has some good information on it. I knew there was at least one other type of bird that had wing claws but didn't know its name. Thank you.

[DittoJed2]

David Plaisted does a pretty good job on the link you gave me. But I tend to believe this:

Who said the designer put the error in there? The designer did not design things so that they would die. His creation was VERY GOOD. Then, man decided he wanted to be god and screwed up the works. God warned them, on the day you eat, you shall surely die, and truly spiritually man died that day, but physically he began to degenerate and get sick too. The Bible says the animals suffered under the same curse. Why? I don't know, other than a perfect world was suddenly made imperfect by Man's sin.

[DittoJed2]

Incidentally, He's coming back and when He does He is going to make everything back the way it was, perfect. Of course, to enjoy this, You have to acknowledge Him as God the Savior.