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Friday, Aug 15, 2003
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Wildlife Narmada-saurus! Our Bureau
Mumbai , Aug 14 NATIONAL Geographic explorer-in-residence and palaeontologist Paul Sereno has identified a new species of dinosaur on the basis of bones collected in India. The discovery was revealed at a press conference in Mumbai organised by the National Geographic channel. The new species has been named `Rajasaurus Narmadensis'. According to Sereno, the find reveals a stocky, carnivorous dinosaur with an unusual head crest from bones that belonged to a significant line of predatory dinosaurs from the southern continents. Sereno said the heavy weight of the hip bone indicated that the dinosaur was a meat-eating carnivorous animal. "It was a significant predator that was related to species on continental Africa, Madagascar and South America," he said. The joint Indian-American research effort was led by Sereno from the University of Chicago, Jeff Wilson of the University of Michigan and Ashok Sahni of the Panjab University. The team named the dinosaur Rajasaurus Narmadensis, which means regal reptile from the Narmada. The 30-foot-long dinosaur was heavy and strong and would have pursued a diet that included the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs that roamed the Narmada region. According to the palaeontologists, dinosaur fossils are rare in India partly because the terrain renders many of the key geological formations inaccessible to digging.
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