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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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New Spiky-Headed Armored Dinosaur Discovered in Utah Was Basically a Tank
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:57PM
Yeah, we're going to need some official input from realDonaldTrump on the subject of dinosaurs, since as of now, the number of dinosaur-related questions Sanders has answered at press briefings is embarrassingly low. Do they make better quality oil or coal? Can we clone them and use them for border security? How big of a wall do we need to keep them contained? Will we impose tariffs on foreign-made dinosaurs? Can we outfit them with Cyber for use in the military? The dinosaur economy has so many unexplored possibilities