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A New Dinosaur
By Jeremy | March 2, 2010
Brigham Young University recently found a new long-necked dinosaur in a quarry in Utah. There is a large problem with new dinosaur discoveries: no one really knows if they are correct or not. Scientists have supposedly found “120 known species of sauropods [but], there have been only eight instances in which scientists have been able to recover intact skulls.” How do the scientists even know if there are 120 different sauropods if they have only ever found 8 skulls? Maybe every sauropod had a different shaped head because they used them to bash coconuts open so they could enjoy sweet coconut milk. The real point is, these dinosaur scientists don’t really know anything about the dinosaurs because they didn’t live during the Age of the Dinosaurs. The amount of fossil evidence that has been found is tiny, as evidenced by the quote above. This leads me to wonder why we keep inventing new types of dinosaurs when we find a new leg bone here or a new skull there. For all we know, they could be from the very same dinosaur.
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