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70-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeleton recovered (AP)

Written by on July 24th, 2008 in Latest News.

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In this photo taken earlier July, 2008 and released by Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences (HMNS) in Okayama, western Japan, a fossilized skull of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur recovered Aug. 8, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia is shown. The fossil of Tarbosaurus ? related to the giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus ? believed to have died at age five and measured about 6.6 feet (2 meters) long, was uncovered by Japanese and Mongolian scientists in joint research projects by Japan's Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, a spokesman for the Japanese museum said Thursday, July 24, 2008. A 10-centimeter (3.9-inch) blue and white measure is placed with the skull. (AP Photo/Hayashibara Museum of National Sciences, HO)AP – Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-ancient young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.

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