Scientists Discover New Dinosaur

CHEN:
A huge carnivorous dinosaur has been found in Argentina, well, just the fossil remains, of course. But it's a new species, and scientists say it lived about 70 million years ago. Not only that, it's been named after a rich New York dinosaur enthusiast who is funding the project. Imagine having a dinosaur named after you. Here's that story.

STORY:
The fossilized dinosaur bones were first discovered in 2001. But it's taken paleontologists seven years to identify what kind of dinosaur the bones belonged to.

The fragments, which include rib, vertebrae and, best of all, a nearly intact tibia were found in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, home to one of the best dinosaur excavation sites.

Argentinean paleontologist Fernando Novas said the remains belonged to a meat-eating dinosaur of up to six or seven meters in length that lived during the Cretaceous period some 70 million years ago. The find makes it the southernmost carnivore discovered by researchers.

[Fernando Novas, Paleontologist]:
"The discovery we've made in Patagonia not only alters and improves our knowledge of dinosaurs in the southern hemisphere, but obviously it also alters knowledge on a global level."

Scientists call it Orkoraptor burkei. "Orr Korr" means "toothed river" in the indigenous language Aoniken while the second part is a homily to amateur researcher and dinosaur enthusiast Coleman Burke, a wealthy New Yorker who funds paleontology excavations in Patagonia.

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[fireraider747]

That guy had thick eyebrows...

[Cephalochordata]

"The southern most carnivore discovered"

This can't be right. The fossils of Cryolophosaurus were found in Antarctica in 1991.

[toastmansride]

Dino DNA!!!!!!!

[EMINEM0999]

i think its creation idiot who creat new dinosours

[rlinfinity]

there is no such thing as a creation scientist. creation morons maybe. creation is not science.

[Albukhshi]

correct, but its the media...

[retardedbloke]

man eventually killed them

[kyleain]

"Scientists say"... stupid. Yet more anti-creationist bigotry. Not all scientists let alone creation scientists says such and such lived millions or billions of years ago. Stop the bigotry.

[vc3luc1d]

at :36 the thing at the left looks like an axe

[RodrigoVegaintento]

Lol, we always joke about his eyebrowns XD

[RodrigoVegaintento]

Thats my drawing, you can even read "Rodrigo Vega" under it at 1:13. I'm so thrilled!