Saturday 26 September 2015

Fossils of new duck-billed, plant-eating dinosaur found in Alaska

A sample of frozen bone is found after researchers excavated it from the Liscomb Bed in the Prince Creek Formation near Nuiqsut, Alaska.
Fossils from a unique plant eating dinosaur found in the high Arctic of Alaska may change how scientists view dinosaur physiology, Alaska and Florida university researchers have said.
A paper published on Tuesday concluded that fossilized bones found along Alaska’s Colville river were from a distinct species of hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur not connected to hadrosaurs previously identified in Canada and the Lower 48 states.
It’s the fourth species unique to northern Alaska. It supports a theory of Arctic-READ MORE

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