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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.
The inconsistencies you know about but I don't are somebody's fantasy. The worldwide public outcry will never be bigger than the total membership of certain literal fundamentalist churches.
Other than that, yes. You might as well reserve judgement.
I'm not stooping to anything. I'm trying to get him to leave me out of his abusive discussions.
Outmaneuvered me where? He began the same tack he did on the cubic circuit thread. As you can see he again became abusive.
The reason the discussion went down that road, was due to his gratuitous statement --->If you're going to make an analogy, make sure it's a valid comparison.
That was unnecessary. Left out, the answer would have been---> Of course the erosion process has those three things. The wind never is constant in speed, direction, or the material it contains. The sandstone varies in hardness, composition and age. Selection is done by the cohesiveness of the sandstone when compared to the force of the wind. And there are many, many places that have various configurations of sandstone that are eventually exposed to the wind. Even now some are being built.
pogroms ... see below !
After some 8 years of battling Clintonites here and other places I grew a bit bored with the same old stuff, plus the battle was over, the US was a free country again. We were still in election mode though so I decided to pick a name which would show my views right off ... Gore3000. The conservatives understood the joke right off, to the others I cannot bother explaining it.
As I surfed around FR, I noticed the evolution threads and was horrified that in a conservative site such as this, the atheists were running rampant, so I decided to take the battle to the evolutionists. Many think little of evolution, but it is pretty central in the agenda of the left. It supports atheism, moral relativism, and the wholesale attack on Christianity. I have written three articles on the subject here at FreeRepublic on why evolution is not science. For my views on the subject check out:
Bye Bye ... Darwin
Evidence ... Disproving --- Evolution
Amazing ... Creatures
Hope you like them, and feel free to discuss them with me by freepmail. There are even more articles you might enjoy at ... DesignedUniverse .
My particular favorites ...
evolution is so ubiquitous ---
why are there no precambrian fossils and ...
where are all the skeletons for short necked giraffes ?
Main Entry: ubiq·ui·tous
Pronunciation: yü-'bi-kw&-t&s
Function: adjective
Date: 1837
: existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : WIDESPREAD
- ubiq·ui·tous·ly adverb
- ubiq·ui·tous·ness noun
All the evos can come up with are old baboon skulls ... paste and glue schlock --- propaganda - brainwashing - pogroms ?
Main Entry: 1po·grom
Pronunciation: 'pO-gr&m, 'pä-; pO-'gräm, p&- Function: noun
Etymology: Yiddish, from Russian, literally, devastation Date: 1903
: an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of Jews
I already saved it.
"Please open your history books and tear out pages 110 to 152! Also, should any of you see pictures of Comrade Molotov on display anywhere, tell a policeman so he can take it down and arrest whatever reactionary capitalist pig is responsible."why are there no precambrian fossils and ...
where are all the skeletons for short necked giraffes ?
Have you formally withdrawn from the agreement? I think you should make it official.
I said the original line was gratuitous. I find that post 474 was abusive. The fact that you do not understand that 474 is abusive reflects on you, not me. The original gratuitous line If you're going to make an analogy, make sure it's a valid comparison., had his word in it, not mine. He chose the word "comparison" and not "inference". He chose the words in post 474, after I wrote "your turn".
How DARE he!
Is this relevant or is it trolling?
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