Dinosaur, Abydosaurus mcintoshi

23 February 2010

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Watch right and left views of the spectacular complete skull of the new dinosaur found in Dinosaur National Monument on the website:http://www.nps.gov/dino/parknews/new-dinosaur.htm

The fossil remains were excavated from the 105-million-year-old Cedar Mountain Formation in Dinosaur National Monument. The new find contains rare and spectacular fossils, including the only complete sauropod skull in the entire Western Hemisphere from the last 80 million years of the Age of Dinosaurs.

Stein Morten Lund, 3 March 2010

Additional information Dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, but lizards are still a common sight at Dinosaur National Monument. The small, inquisitive reptiles have endured on Earth for more than 300 million years, far outlasting their giant cousins.

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