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New Dinosaur Species Found in India
AP ^ | August 13, 2003 | RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM

Posted on 08/13/2003 9:02:05 PM PDT by nwrep

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acanthostega; antarctica; australia; catastrophism; crevolist; dino; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; ichthyostega; india; madagascar; narmadabasin; narmadensis; paleontology; rajasaurus; rino
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To: VadeRetro
Isn't that amazing? I wonder what little plan they have hatched that they are trying to hide from public eyes?

I guess that we shall see, when they do hatch it though, we will most likely see through it immediatley, just as we did the agreement.

They think that they are dealing with a bunch of bumpkins, I find that REALLY amusing!!
3,021 posted on 08/26/2003 7:19:59 AM PDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
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To: VadeRetro
Somebody has hastily read-protected some of the evidence on another forum. Don't their guilty little minds know that God can still see?)

God and google. Cache is still better than credit.

3,022 posted on 08/26/2003 7:29:12 AM PDT by js1138
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If we on this forum disagree so much, what is our future?

Those who yearn for total agreement should read "A Wrinkle In Time" -- a so-called children's book, but one with lessons for all ages.

3,023 posted on 08/26/2003 7:34:39 AM PDT by js1138
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Are you concerned that this thread, in which people discuss being banned from FR might get noticed?

I guess someone was concerned. LOL.

3,024 posted on 08/26/2003 7:38:01 AM PDT by js1138
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To: Right Wing Professor
By this definition, football... could be a religion.

You mean it isn't in Nebraska? Well, maybe not this year!
3,025 posted on 08/26/2003 7:40:39 AM PDT by whattajoke
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To: Da_Shrimp
How it sounds.
3,026 posted on 08/26/2003 7:44:00 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: Right Wing Professor
Stupid definition, unless it is meant to include the usages of religion in a figurative sense. By this defniition, football, quilting, exercise, or even cleaning house could be a religion.

Tell it to the Dictionary people. I did not create that definition.

Atheism is a faith-based religion.

3,027 posted on 08/26/2003 7:44:33 AM PDT by Last Visible Dog
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To: whattajoke
Well, maybe not this year!

The dread cliche 'rebuilding year' is being used. I think that means for 2003-2004, Nebraska is agnostic.

3,028 posted on 08/26/2003 7:44:56 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: js1138
Cache is still better than credit.

Until you get to the rent-a-car counter.

3,029 posted on 08/26/2003 7:47:09 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: Last Visible Dog
Tell it to the Dictionary people. I did not create that definition.

No, you selectively quoted it, plainly out of context.

Atheism is a faith-based religion.

If you say it one more time, does that strngthen the point?

3,030 posted on 08/26/2003 7:47:35 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
The dread cliche 'rebuilding year' is being used.

Still better than my undergrad school (UConn). We're in a perpetual "Building mode." Then Miami and VTech left the Big East rendering it pretty much moot. They open the new $90 million stadium Saturday favored by 6 or so over Indiana, which is surprising. I'm a football guy, but this is a basketball state. And UConn men are slated to be #1 to start the season in November.

Anyway, back to the thread at hand...
3,031 posted on 08/26/2003 7:49:09 AM PDT by whattajoke
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To: Right Wing Professor
Yeah, just as saying that evolution is not science will somehow make it true.

Rather amusing I think....

So, click your heels together and repeat after me.

Evolution is not science, atheism is a religion

There, now they can go home to where things mean what they want them to mean, not ACTUALLY what they mean.
3,032 posted on 08/26/2003 7:56:14 AM PDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
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To: conservababeJen
Does my site look like that to you? A "snipe" at FR forum?

Not anymore. It's all spic 'n span now. No threads at all complaining/bragging about being banned at other conservative forums. Nobody here but us eagles.

3,033 posted on 08/26/2003 8:01:07 AM PDT by js1138
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To: whattajoke
No one here stalks anyone. The only time I've ever heard that word was when Alamo-Girl used it in a cryptic reference to a banned poster. How does one "stalk" in this sense anyway? Like going to google and finding stuff out about others' real personas? Well, if that's the case, then we're probably all guilty, maybe the difference lies in whether we choose to make what we find public or not.

I apologise to everyone for posting a picture of a former Freeper. Not because it was stalking, but because it was counterproductive. I should have posted just the link to the site, since the site was heavily advertised by the former Freeper himself.

Breaking FR rules (JR's rules, not our agreement) is a legitimate topic of discussion and I will continue discussing it when it comes up.

3,034 posted on 08/26/2003 8:09:51 AM PDT by js1138
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To: PatrickHenry
deteriorating signal-to-noise ratio placemarker
3,035 posted on 08/26/2003 8:21:21 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: Aric2000
Truth God haters lover of lies self placemaker !
3,036 posted on 08/26/2003 8:25:09 AM PDT by f.Christian (evolution vs intelligent design ... science3000 ... designeduniverse.com --- * architecture * !)
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To: longshadow
deteriorating signal-to-noise ratio placemarker

It's really amazing how quickly a thread can degenerate when those who can't discuss science show up. Ditto for those who can discuss science but who choose to lurch back to the Nazi name-calling mode.

3,037 posted on 08/26/2003 8:38:38 AM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
cookie cutter science placemaker !
3,038 posted on 08/26/2003 8:41:38 AM PDT by f.Christian (evolution vs intelligent design ... science3000 ... designeduniverse.com --- * architecture * !)
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To: Dataman
Hi dataman :)
3,039 posted on 08/26/2003 8:47:01 AM PDT by goodseedhomeschool (returned) (If history has shown us anything, labeling ignorance science, proves scripture correct)
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To: longshadow
"Nothing but static" placemarker.
3,040 posted on 08/26/2003 8:48:13 AM PDT by Junior (Killed a six pack ... just to watch it die.)
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