Show O’X? Page 2 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday March r 1 11 i ”“V f - ’r ' 1 - "TT- ’ I I I 2000 World big brother? New T-re-x’s BrSheila Hotchkin Associated Press Writer species found eating giant was 43 feet king bigger than the reigning king of the carnivores the Giganotosanrus n The was about 40 V-'feet long think “I it would look just as nasty if not worse” Currie said “This guy has a long snout long skull incredibly sharp teeth — I think it would have been terrifying” Currie said (hie animal is apparently related to the Giganotosauras but is a new species and genus making the two creatures as closely related as a dog and a fox The dinosaur is further at least as removed from the different as a dog is from a caL The researchers have given their discovery a South American Indian 41-fo- Scientists have discovered the bones of what could be largest dinosaur ever to walk the razor-toothEarth — a needle-nose- d meat-eati- better-know- T-r-ex "-- ! ng ed beast that may have more terrifying than even the Tyrannosaurus rex A team of researchers from Argentina and North America unearthed die fossilized braes of as many as six of' the previously unknown species in Patagonia a desert on the eastern slopes of the Andes in South America The dig began in 1997 ' The discovery of the predators' graveyard challenges the theory that were loners the biggest It also raises die possibility that they lived and hunted in packs — which would make them even more terrifying to their prey “You always think of these things as being solitary Now we know they traveled in packs” Philip Currie one of two scientists to make die discovery said in an interview Friday He works with the Royal Tyrrell Muse- um in Alberta Canada Currie said die newly discovered species lived about 100 million yean ago and was heavier and had slightly ot i whether the dinosaurs really did die' together “If they all died at the same time and if they died somewhat cata-strdphically” he said “that would lend support to the fact that dinosaurs traveled in groups per- haps jnfamily groups” In 1993 a farmer led Currie's cd-league Rodolfo Coria of die Cannes Funes Municipal Museum to the site in the Andes foothills 640 milei meat-eati- ng r: southwest of Buenos Aires- The region has yielded a number of dis coveries including the Giganoto-’ - saurus- - “There were lots of animals and when they died there was lots of mud and sand fo get buried in:And if you can get buried you can get fosname but are withholding it until silized" Currie said their findings are published They Thinking they may have found released some details of the discov- another Giganotosauras Coria and ery in conjunction with an exhibit of Currie began working together on the some of Currie’s other findings at the site in 1997 They quickly unearthed Riverfront Arts Center in Wilminga number of braes and grew excited ton Del The exhibit opened Friday as they realized they had found some“The bigness of it — well obvious-t- s thing new headlines — but scientifi- ly it They 'now have remains from at dinosaurs ranging cally it’s not drat important But the least a n fact that they traveled together that’s from anito said sciHorner Jack mals because a That is very interesting” important from Montana State entists the could how paleontologist study species University in Bozeman grew said paleontologist Kenneth Horner said he is awaiting the geo- Carpenter of the Denver Museum of logical evidence that COuld determine Natural History j T-r-ex meat-eate- rs 'V AP photo Philip Currie of the RoyaJ Tyrrell Museum In AJberta Canada one of two scientists to discover bones of a new dinosaur species In the Patagonian Desert of Jawed discovery at the Wilmington Ait Center Argentina poees with his sdssor-lik- e in Wilmington Dei on Friday half-doz- en shorter legs than the which roamed North America It had a tail and short front legs that were basically useless The dinosaur also was characterized by a long narrow skull and a T-r- ex jaw shaped like scissors That suggests it could have dissected its prey with almost surgical precision “where the Tyrannosaur had a nutcracker skull” Currie said Researchers estimated the meat- - half-grow- full-gro- LACKER FURNITURE OFF ARMLY OR ROMANTIC VACATION ONE VACATION PACKAGE PER FAMILY WithQualifiedPurchase promotion does nqtincliide prior sales omrsi iw a FREE VACATION PACKAGE WITH ANY PURCHASE OF $499 OR ABOVE MUST USE BEFORE APRIL 30 2001 comfort found in this leather chaise recliner will relax you from head to toe Features a The full-bod- y Vi" V ptd |