Two New Dino Species Unveiled

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Two New Dino Species Unveiled

By Blake Edgar, Discovery News

June 18 — Dramatic proof that North America's dinosaur diversity has not been exhausted has emerged from the Arizona-New Mexico borderlands. At a press conference today in Washington, D.C., paleontologists unveiled two new dinosaur species found in the Zuni Basin.

The new dinosaurs raise important questions about their origin and evolution. What's more, they come from an unsampled slice of time for dinosaurs, the so-called Cretaceous Gap, from 105 to 75 million years ago. When the Zuni dinosaurs roamed North America about 91 million years ago, the Western Interior Seaway covered much of the landscape.
"This is a whole interactive group of new animals ... from an interval of time when we didn't know anything about life on land anywhere on Earth," says Utah State Paleontologist and Zuni Basin team member Jim Kirkland.

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