Red Bull Gives Hadrosaurs Wings (Was Paleontologists have discovered 15 areas in Shandong province that contain thousands of dinosaur bones ...

[Mark Hallett <marksabercat@yahoo.com>]

Article quote: "...a giant "platypus" or Chinese duckbilled dinosaur with a 
WINGSPAN GREATER THAN 16 m...." ???????????!!!!!!!!!!!! And all this time we 
thought those forelimbs were for just for locomotion.  --Mark


--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Janet m vandenburgh <van02@cox.net> wrote:

> From: Janet m vandenburgh <van02@cox.net>
> Subject: Paleontologists have discovered 15 areas  in Shandong province that 
> contain thousands of dinosaur bones ...
> To: "Dinosaur@usc.edu" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 2:06 PM
> My apologies if this is the same area ... & quantity of
> fossils in China
> brought up in the past ...
> 
> 
> http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20090126-185632/Huge-di
> nosaur-find-in-China--state-media
> 
> Huge dinosaur find in China--state media 
> 
> 
> 
> Agence France-Presse
> First Posted 14:38:00 01/26/2009
> 
> Filed Under: Science (general), Animals, history
> 
> 
> BEIJING -- Paleontologists in east China have dug up what
> they believe is
> one of the world's largest group of fossilized dinosaur
> bones, including the
> remains of an enormous "platypus," state press
> said Tuesday.
> 
> Paleontologists have discovered 15 areas near Zhucheng city
> in Shandong
> province that contain thousands of dinosaur bones, the
> Beijing News
> reported.
> 
> "This group of fossilized dinosaurs is currently the
> largest ever discovered
> in the world... in terms of area," the paper cited
> paleontologist Zhao Xijin
> of the China Academy of Sciences as saying.
> 
> In one area measuring 300 meters by 10 meters, more than
> 3,000 bones were
> found, the report said. Since digging began in March
> scientists have
> discovered more than 7,600 bones.
> 
> ...