Monday, April 22, 2013

New dinosaur, Dahalokely tokana, discovered in Madagascar

While a whole new generation is discovering dinosaurs in the re-release of "Jurassic Park,refrigerant" a Denver scientist has uncovered a whole new dinosaur species.Joseph Sertich, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science,spy hidden camera discovered the Dahalokely tokana on a Madagascar cliff.The vertebrae and ribs were excavated in 2007 and 2010, near the city of Antsiranana in northernmost Madagascar, Sertich said. 

"This dinosaur was closely related to other famous dinosaurs from the southern continents, like the horned Carnotaurus from Argentina and Majungasaurus, also from Madagascar," Sertich said. "This just reinforces the importance of exploring new areas around the world where undiscovered dinosaur species are still waiting." 
A self-described "dinosaur-loving kid who never grew up," Sertich has discovered about a dozen dino species and named a couple, he said. 

"It's not uncommon to find new things when looking in new areas," Sertich said of the success throughout his career.From these new bones discovered in the riverbed of a cliff, Sertich and his team have determined the Dahalokely Advertisement tokana would have been between 9 and 14 feet long and lived about 90 million years ago, Sertich said.That period of time is significant because it helps to fill a gap in the fossil record, Sertich said.Until now, no dinosaur remains from between 165 and 70 million years ago could be identified to the species level in Madagascar, but Dahalokely shortens that gap by 20 million years,wholesale manicure products Sertich said. 

"The speed of change makes you uncomfortable on a regular basis," he says. "That's so difficult for people who are paying mortgages, buying cars,Fiberglass animal trying to give their kids the things they had, to get them through school. You want to feel confident in the last 15 years of your career that after 25 or 30 years of effort,scissors wholesale it's just going to work," he says. "But it isn't so. And I don't think you ever get over the fear of not knowing."

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