New species of dinosaur found in eastern Utah rock

By MIKE STARK, Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY – Fossils of a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur have been found in slabs of Utah sandstone that were so hard that explosives had to be used to free some of the remains, scientists said Tuesday. The bones found at Dinosaur National Monument belonged to a type of sauropod — long-necked plant-eaters that were said to be the largest animal ever to roam land.

The discovery included two complete skulls from other types of sauropods — an extremely rare find, scientists said.

The fossils offer fresh insight into lives of dinosaurs some 105 million years ago, including the evolution of sauropod teeth, which reveal eating habits and other information, said Dan Chure, a paleontologist at the monument that straddles the Utah-Colorado border.

"You can hardly overstate the significance of these fossils," he said.

Of the 120 or so known species of sauropods, complete skulls have been found for just eight. That's mostly because their skulls were made of thin, fragile bones bound by soft tissue that were easily destroyed after death.

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Here is BYU's Link:
http://news.byu.edu/archive10-feb-abydosaurus.aspx

Did they find anyone riding it? This could prove Palin right!

Or perhaps a clever ruse by the devil, eh...

Most of the Scientists come from BYU, which is a Mormon run University. How do they fit these Sauropods in to their ways of thinking? They talked about these creatures evolving.. yet we have some people who believe dinosaurs walked with man 6,000 years ago.

Maybe thats not the Mormon belief, but Evolution of the Sauropods..obviously were not talking Creationism or Intelligent Design here!

Some things are beyond the scope of what reasonable ppl can do.

It's dinosaur bone that is no longer fossil it has turned to agate or in other words quartz and can be cut and polished just like gemstones for jewelry, very beautiful with black spiderweb and comes in all colors. Google it or look for it at gem shows.

say the people rode around on way back then. I mean after all they are trying to prove that dinosaurs and man roamed the earth at the same time. Oh I know...they saw the latest Fred Flintstone film. Darn!!that explains it all.