Thursday, September 15, 2011

New Dinosaur Fossil Found

Scientists found the youngest dinosaur fossil, a Tryceratops. It was found in Hell Creek in Montana. It was found just five inches underground. Scientists said they can't determine the exact age of the dinosaur, but they said it was living hundreds to thousands of years before the extinction. The dinosaur was buried in a mudstone floodplain, the Scientists knew it wasn't redeposited from older fossils, which can sometimes happen when fossils are found in riverbeds that may have eroded and redistributed over time. Critique: I think Dinosaurs are cool. I wonder since they found this one, if there are more that the scientists don't know about. Impact: Finding this newer fossil will help find out the history of Earth, and Dinosaurs before our time, which I think is cool.

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