Posted on 02/16/2009 3:18:48 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Scientists have found fossil remains of an omnivorous dinosaur in Argentina -- a missing link to the carnivores, a researcher said Monday.
"It is an omnivore -- in other words it ate everything (plants and meat) -- which is the missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and giant four-footed herbivores," said Oscar Alcober, also director of the Natural Sciences Museum in San Juan, 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) west of Buenos Aires.
"This is a very important piece of the puzzle on the origin of dinosaurs," said Alcober.
Alcober and Ricardo Martinez, chief of the museum's paleontology division, found the remains three years ago in the Ischigualasto-Valle de la Luna park, north of the provincial capital San Juan. They released their findings Monday in the online journal of peer reviewed science PlosOne.org.
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An artist's conception of a male Maiacetus inuus as it would have appeared in life is seen in this undated handout photo. Fossils from two early whales -- a male and a rare pregnant female -- shed light on how these ancestors to modern whales made the leap from walking on land to ruling the sea. REUTERS/John Klausmeyer/University of Michigan Museums of Natural History/Handout
Poor Ark.
Missing link to nothing...bears do the same thing, meat, plants, berries, equal opportunity eaters..
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Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. |
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