Scientists Find New Species in Mexico, With Unusual Skull
By NED POTTER
Feb. 13, 2008 —
The Mexican state of Coahuila, due west of the southern tip of Texas, is arid country today. But 72 million years ago it was a tropical paradise, warm and moist, close to a vast sea that divided what eventually became North America.
Now, scientists report they have found a new dinosaur species there -- one of the very few ever discovered in Mexico.
It was apparently a duck-billed plant eater, probably about 25 feet long. Scientists hesitate to guess too much about it, but they say they can tell from its bone structure that it was probably not fully grown. An adult of the species could have been 10 feet longer.
ABC News
Wow, to think we are discovering new species almost everyday. Why is it possible not only to find new types of dinosaur but new species of life on earth?
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Earth is fairly large. There are forests that r thick enough to hide animals. Thats y new ones are discovered.
The world is very big. The animals and insects cen hide. They are stile hiding tokes did and still are hiding it is what they do.
The planet is so large, and is ecosystems are son complex, there is no way for humans to name every creature that resides on it. I mean, humans are just really smart animals too, aren't we?
The land moves every year. So the climate changes all the time. global warming also changes the tempurature.
Evolution is always happening. New species are created all the time and already known species change. Our Earth is so vast that they are bound to be dead and old species buried somewhere as well as new species hiding that we do not know about.
There are places that no one has gone and those places hold new species unknown to you, me, and millions of other people. The fact that we can find these people is intriguing. I think it would be exciting to find a new creature.
We can always find new species becaus there is so much of the earth that we haven't even started to explore. I wouldn't be surprised if we found something cool at the bottom of the ocean, just because nobody goes down there. We will probably find something awesome like a monkeyfishfrog living at the north pole.
Earth is fairly large. There are forests that r thick enough to hide animals. That is why new ones are discovered.
The earth is really big. It has alot of areas where the animals can live. We dont know every species that lives on the earth its way to big.
The Earth is very large. Scientists are always finding new things and species. There is many ways that they can appear.
The world is huge. We can only uncover so much at a time. Also there are millions of species out there.
THe world is huge. We are finding things and will continue finding things forever. I'm pretty sure there is some plant out there that can cure many diseases.
The world is a very large place so what may have been a ocean millions of years ago could be an undiscorvered rain forest. The Amazan rain forest is a very good example of that because many parts of it are undiscorvered.
The Earth has evolved so much and is quite different than what it used to be. Some of these "new species" we are finding could actually be the original species of some type of thing we have today. There is so much life out there it is hard to know what is new and old and what there is still to come.
With our new technology advancing everyday, we can find these new species a lot quick then in past years. I believe after the Y2K bug, our technology is only getting better. Use our technology it saves time, effort, and its a lot of fun.
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