Re: A nearly intact skeleton of Titanosaurus

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

I wrote:


> Can someone translate it? David, maybe?

My mistake, I hadn'et seen the bottom lines
Sorry
Jean-Michel

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <hpb1956@aol.com>
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> 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.
> >
> >
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