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  • Eggs of Enigmatic Dinosaur in Patagonia Discovered

    04/21/2012 7:01:51 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 26 replies
    Science News ^ | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | Uppsala U via AlphaGalileo
    An Argentine-Swedish research team has reported a 70-million-year-old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur in Patagonia... The dinosaur represents the latest survivor of its kind from Gondwana, the southern landmass in the Mesozoic Era. The creature belongs to one of the most mysterious groups of dinosaurs, the Alvarezsauridae, and it is one of the largest members, 2.6 m, of the family. It was first discovered by Dr. Powell, but has now been described and named Bonapartenykus ultimus in honor of Dr. José Bonaparte who 1991 discovered the first alvarezsaurid in Patagonia... The two eggs...