Dinosaur Graveyard Is Unearthed

Science - Reuters ^ | 2004-07-07

[Junior]

BERLIN (Reuters) - German scientists have unearthed the biggest collection of dinosaur fossils ever found in the country, including bones that could belong to previously unknown species, researchers said on Wednesday.

"This is the largest discovery of its kind in Germany -- you could call it a dinosaur graveyard," said Klaus-Peter Lanser of the Museum of Natural History in Muenster, western Germany, which put the fossils on show this week.

Scientists think the 130 million year-old fragments of bones and teeth come from six different species that could be related to the predatory carnivores Velociraptor and Deinonychus, as well as from prehistoric crocodiles and tortoises.

"Dinosaur remains have been found before in Germany but this find is unique because of the variety of dinosaur species to have left traces in the same place," said Franck Tafertshufer, a local authority spokesman in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which backed the dig.

Staff at the Muenster museum found the fossils during a two-year excavation of a five-meter (16-ft) deep trench, which Lanser believes was a prehistoric watering hole.

[Junior]

Nothing special, but interesting nonetheless.

[old3030]

Dead dinosaurs.

A new Democrat voter base.

[SirChas]

German scientists have unearthed the biggest collection of dinosaur fossils ever found in the country, including bones that could belong to previously unknown species, researchers said on Wednesday.

I didn't know she was German.

[annyokie]

Dino ping

[Freebird Forever]

German scientists have unearthed the biggest collection of dinosaur fossils ever found in the country .... you could call it a dinosaur graveyard

So where's the oil?

[TC Rider]

Nothing special, but interesting nonetheless.

Now, if they had found the dinosaur crematory, mausoleum and chapel of eternal rest, I'd been impressed.

[null and void]

It would be facinating and terrifying if there were a Dino Sapiens...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Bush is the real criminal here.

[PatrickHenry]

I've been shrugging off too many of your threads. This one gets the treatment. In my next post. Besides, this could be the long-lost site of the dino version of the UN.

[ken5050]

Just reading on another thread that Sen Mikulski is about to be "outed" by radical gay groups....then I saw this pic, and the images blurred?..Can you post side-by sides of the two?

[PatrickHenry]

Evolution Ping! This list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and maybe other science topics like cosmology.
See the list's description in my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail me to be added or dropped.

[RightWhale]

unique because of the variety of dinosaur species to have left traces in the same place

Something was dragging their carcasses back to its den. Something bigger and nastier.

[SirChas]

Here tiz...

[Spirochete]

[Pharmboy]

Ze first wurst!

[ErnBatavia]

Something was dragging their carcasses back to its den. Something bigger and nastier.

Hint?

[ken5050]

Thanks..they're about the same age, size, and weight....have they ever been seen together?...BTW.my other pair of "separated at birth" folks are Tony Sopranoa nd the new Iraqi PM..there wre pics around here somewheres, but its..well..uncanny...and if Allawi ever uses Soprano like methods..well, the bad guys are gonna get a wupping..

[Junior]

I hadn't considered that, but now that you mention it, that makes a lot of sense.

[Modernman]

It would be facinating and terrifying if there were a Dino Sapiens...

I remember reading a sci-fi series like that once- an alternate world where the big comet never hit and some of the smaller dinosaurs evolved into a sentient species around the same time as humans. Kind of eerie.