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New Spiky-Headed Armored Dinosaur Discovered in Utah Was Basically a Tank

posted by mrpg on Sunday July 29 2018, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-tiger dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A new species of spiky-headed dinosaurs has been discovered in Utah, the oldest of its genus ever found in North America. Akainacephalus johnsoni is 75 million years and like its cousin, the Ankylosaurus, had an armored body and an imposing club tail.

The dinosaur's scientific journey began 10 years ago in 2008, when a paleontologist with the Bureau of Land Management found what appeared to be a fossil site at the Kaiparowits Formation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. A hotbed of prehistoric discovery, the Kaiparowits has been called "dinosaur Shangri La." The National Momument was recently shrunk through an order from President Trump, and some of its former land has now been purchased by a mining company.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:54PM

    by VLM (445) on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:54PM (#714381)

    The National Momument (sic) was recently shrunk through an order from President Trump

    I was surprised to discover that park is only 20 years old. Gonna take a little while to discover the "natural boundaries"

    Note that Yosemite was a "cool place to visit" for about 70 years before a dam ruined the Hetch Hetchy valley, with only modest controversy, so apparently even 70 years isn't long enough to determine the true boundaries, surely 20 years isn't enough time.

    Just saying, its not quite as controversial as filling in the grand canyon to make a really big Panera or CostCo parking lot, or something like that.

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