The two animals, which were found in southeast Morroco near the Algerian border, date back around 100 million years, Portsmouth University said in a statement.
Paleontologists from the southern English university made the find with others from University College Dublin in Ireland (UCD), and the Universite Hassan II in Casablanca in Morocco.
Researchers found what they described as a large fragment of a beak from a giant flying reptile, along with bone from a sauropod measuring more than a metre (3.3 feet) in length.
The bone from the sauropod -- which is classed as a dinosaur unlike the pterosaur -- indicates that it was around 20 metres (65 feet) in length.
"Finding two specimens in one expedition is remarkable, especially as both might well represent completely new species," said Nizar Ibrahim, a UCD expert on North African dinosaurs who led the expedition.
The discoveries will be return to Morocco and put on display after they are studied in Dublin.
To: All
2 posted on
12/16/2008 5:17:21 PM PST by
JoeProBono
( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
To: JoeProBono
Amazing stuff, thanks for posting this.
4 posted on
12/16/2008 5:19:11 PM PST by
zarodinu
To: JoeProBono; sauropod
and a new type of sauropod There's only ONE sauropod.
6 posted on
12/16/2008 5:21:40 PM PST by
EternalVigilance
(Hey Barack: If you don't play the 'pay to play' game, explain the cushy job Axelrod got your wife.)
To: JoeProBono
But did they find their SUVs?
8 posted on
12/16/2008 5:25:09 PM PST by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
To: JoeProBono; dragonblustar; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; ...
10 posted on
12/16/2008 5:43:36 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
To: JoeProBono
darn, I was hoping they’d be alive so I could taste them.
13 posted on
12/16/2008 5:54:14 PM PST by
isom35
To: JoeProBono
"New and Extinct!"
Must be tough to finally get your moment in the spotlight then find out you're extinct.
14 posted on
12/16/2008 6:06:45 PM PST by
Flycatcher
(Strong copy for a strong America)
To: sauropod
18 posted on
12/16/2008 8:49:02 PM PST by
null and void
(Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
To: JoeProBono
Have they found the remains of a white European next to a combustion engine? Something caused that once lush area to become a desert wasteland.
20 posted on
12/16/2008 9:21:31 PM PST by
TigersEye
(Allah licks my shoes but they still don't shine.)
To: JoeProBono
Funny how “might well represent new species’ in the story always translates into “new species found” in the headline.
22 posted on
12/17/2008 10:11:51 AM PST by
wildbill
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