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Hum,
A new species of mini-dinosaur has been unearthed in a quarry at Oker, Germany.
The creature was of the sauropod type - that group of long-necked, four-footed herbivores that were the largest of all the dinosaurs.
But at just 1.7 to 6.2metres in length, this animal was considerably smaller than its huge cousins.
It is thought that the Jurassic species evolved its small form in response to limited food resources on an island.
The species has been given the formal classification Europasaurus holgeri, or "Holger's reptile from Europe". The name honours Holger Luedtke, a self-taught palaeontologist who found the first bones in 1998.
In height terms, an adult E. holgeri would have been about the size of a horse at the shoulder.
The fossils were found in Late Jurassic carbonate rock (about 150 million years old). At this period in Earth's history, much of what is now central Europe was under water.
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Latitude 51°50'46.33"N Longitude 10°30'12.01"E
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5055128.stm)
Read more (http://www.vertpaleo.org/meetings/2004_SVP_abstracts.pdf) (PDF)
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So there really was a dinosaur like Dino from The Flintstones!
:-D
Apparently, the Isle of Wight is where the Diplodocus lived.
I watched Mrs.Doubtfire on Sunday and I noticed the dinosaurs in the TV studio were the old Dino Riders toys from the early 90s. I had the little men to sit on top and the gun turrets, basically it was a cartoon about brainwashing dinosaurs and starting a fight or something.
Dino fans in the UK be sure to catch 'Prehistoric Park' from the makers of Walking With Dinosaurs on BBC1.
My favourite dinosaur has to be the Stegosaurus, however if reports are true of a feather-clad Tyranosaurus I'm sold!