RE: PALEONEWS: Bones of contention: Should dinosaur remains be a tourist mecca?

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Betty Cunningham
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/06/02/battle.bones/
>
> Bones of contention: Should dinosaur remains be a tourist mecca?
> -with pictures and a videoclip from Big Bend National Park

>From the article:
"Geoscientist James Carter found the 65-year-old skeletal remains of an
alamosaurus in Big Bend National Park"

65 years old!!!  Damn!  I mean, I know that _Alamosaurus_ was the latest
surviving sauropod known from North America, but this is amazing!! :-)

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
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