New Fossil Find Points to South American Origin of Dinosaurs

posted on January 7th, 2010 in Recent Discoveries, South American Dinosaurs

Tawa hallae, a meat-eating Theropod dinosaur discovered in New Mexico

Tawa hallae, a meat-eating Theropod dinosaur discovered in New Mexico

New Meat-Eating Dinosaur Alters Evolutionary Tree

December 10, 2009

Esciencenews.com

Paleontologists, aided by amateur volunteers, have unearthed a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur from a fossil bone bed in northern New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, revealing a period of explosive diversification and hinting at how dinosaurs spread across the supercontinent Pangaea.

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