Re: A nearly intact skeleton of Titanosaurus

[Jean-Michel Benoit <s.aegyptiacus@wanadoo.fr>]

Can someone translate it? David, maybe?
Cheers,
Jean-Michel

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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:19 PM
Subject: A nearly intact skeleton of Titanosaurus


> There's a report on SPIEGEL ONLINE dated 27. Dezember 2005, 11:56
> URL: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,392359,00.html
>
> Does anybody knows more about this find?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Heinz Peter Bredow
>
>
>
> Argentina
>
> Argentine researchers discover an intact dinosaur skeleton
>
> Argentine researchers have discovered a nearly intact skeleton of a
> young
> Titanosaurus. The discovery of the 71 million year old skeleton is a
> sensation,
> first of all because the remains seem to be practically unchanged. It
> seems
> to be a juvenile.
>
> "What's so extraordinarily about this discovery, is that the remains
> lay as if the
> animal has fallen down or has lain down and has not been moved after
> this any
> more", local media quoted the geologist and paleontologist Bernardo
> Gonzalez Riga.
>
> For example a foot with all toes and claws remained in an
> extraordinarily good
> condition. Up to now only one or two Titanosaurs have been found
> world-wide
> with complete foot bones, Gonzalez said further. Also apart from that
> the skeleton
> is nearly complete, only head and neck were lacking. Gonzalez said,
> probably they
> were washed away as time went by.
>
> Probably the Titanosaur was approximately ten meters long and weighed
> about
> twelve tons, therefore, it seems to be a juvenile. The species which
> lived in the
> Cretaceous period and fed on plants became up to 35 meters long as
> adult.
>
> The skeleton was found when the German Ölfirma Wintershall Energy
> searched in
> the province Neuquen for oil. The area in Patagonia in the south of the
> country
> is considered to be the Eldorado for palaeontologists. In the region
> numerous remains
> of dinosaurs were found.
>
>