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Here's an earlier article (press release, it's bilingual) on the same site.
Angola is central to understanding the evolutionary history of this group of animals. Currenty we are concentrating on the final chapters of their history, but fortunately, Angola has older rocks too, and therefore allows access to several other chapters in the history of these fascinating animals. We have thus far discovered a number of forms, including one called Tuarangisaurus. This taxon is very interesting because it appears to conserve morphology that corresponds to juvenile plesiosaurs of other taxa. Also, from a biogeographic perspective, this taxon appears to be restricted to the southern hemisphere, but is widespread, occurring in three different continents: South America (Argentina), Oceania (New Zealand) and now Africa ( Angola, see summary in Araújo et al. 2010).

Plesiosaurs of Angola

1 posted on 03/18/2011 6:51:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv; sauropod

Sauropod ping...


3 posted on 03/18/2011 7:01:21 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 786 of our national holiday from reality. - It's never 3 AM at the White Hut)
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To: SunkenCiv
I know where you can find a fully intact Wenniesaur Cluelessis. There is a breeding colony on the Potomac.
5 posted on 03/18/2011 7:25:11 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: SunkenCiv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO1bn1qKu7A
Aaron Neville.


7 posted on 03/18/2011 9:17:19 PM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Drat, I thought they had a live one.


8 posted on 03/18/2011 9:57:46 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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To: SunkenCiv

In this undated photo supplied by the PaleoAngola Project, researcher Octavio Mateus analyses part of a fossilized dinosaur. Paleontologists say it is from a new dinosaur, citing unique skeletal characteristics.


10 posted on 03/19/2011 7:01:46 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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