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"Pipeline Project Leads to Dinosaur Discovery"



Reuters and the other news services are reporting this discovery,
but the press release is on the Williams Companies' website at:
http://www.williams.com/news/rel386.html
There are also pictures and additional information on the find on
the website.

> Pipeline Project Leads to Dinosaur Discovery 
> TULSA-- A small paleontology firm based in Vernal, Utah, has made
> a big discovery, uncovering about 50 percent of a sauropod skeleton 
> believed to be around 150 million years old. 

> A sauropod is a plant-eating, four-legged, immense dinosaur from 
> the Jurassic Period that had a characteristic long neck, long tail and 
> small head. 

> An example of a sauropod is a brontosaurus. <snip>
Another example is an _Apatosaurus_.

Mary
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