Sharp-toothed fossil links old and new dinosaurs
14th April 2011
I’m sure Obama’s ahead of the curve on this one.
The surprising discovery of a fossil of a sharp-toothed beast that lurked in what is now the western U.S. more than 200 million years ago is filling a gap in dinosaur evolution.
The short snout and slanting front teeth of the find _ Daemonosaurus chauliodus _ had never before been seen in a Triassic era dinosaur, said Hans-Dieter Sues of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Sues and colleagues report the discovery in Wednesday’s edition of the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.