Attention, dinosaur lovers! Ohio University paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania. The new species, named Rukwatitan bisepultus, was first spotted by scientists embedded in a cliff wall in the Rukwa Rift Basin of southwestern Tanzania. Using the help of professional excavators and coal miners, the team unearthed vertebrae, ribs, limbs and pelvic bones over the course of two field seasons. Read more: ohio.edu/research/communications/rukwatitan.cfm Story and images courtesy of Ohio University Research News
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:11:15 +0000
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