Scientists Discover 3,000-Pound Gigantoraptor Dinosaur in Mongolia


	Scientists Discover 3,000-Pound Gigantoraptor Dinosaur in Mongolia

Caleythia

6-14-2007 9:31 AM

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dinosaurs, science

Caleythia says:

I love dinosaur stuff. And that is quite a fearsome looking beast indeed.

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And by gigantic they mean 3,000 pounds. The scientists were surprised by its size because most assume that as dinosaurs got more birdlike, they got smaller. It's 35 times heavier than similar feathered dinosaurs, which rarely exceeded a body mass of 90 pounds.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/scientists_disc.html">A histological analysis suggests that Gigantoraptor gained this size by a growth rate considerably faster than large North American tyrannosaurs such as Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/scientists_disc.html">They say the animal lived about 70 million years ago, and classify it as a new genus: <EM>gigantoraptor, and </EM>species: <EM>erlianensis</EM> .</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/scientists_disc.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/BC11C219-D8CB-4522-B513-8D7B32FDBF02" alt="Dinosaur_skeleton_2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/scientists_disc.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/4EF76A5D-2EB3-444D-9731-9B2C4AC79FDA" alt="Femur" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/scientists_disc.html">Bird-like proximal end of a large femur held by a technician. 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