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Dinosaurs 10 million years older than thought ?
Posted on Friday, 5 March, 2010 | 19 comments
The remains of a dinosaur-like creature dating back 240 million years may change what we know about when dinosaurs appeared.
The remains of Asilisaurus kongwe found in Tanzania indicates that dinosaurs may have been around 10 million years earlier than previously thought.
Scientists have uncovered the bones of a dinosaur-like creature that roamed Earth at least 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaur, according to a recent study.
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#15 Posted by Lizardian_guy on 12 March, 2010, 2:31Nice.
#16 Posted by psyche101 on 12 March, 2010, 3:27This pleases you? Good Glad to be of assistance.
#17 Posted by Mattshark on 12 March, 2010, 16:51It does make sense because there indeed would almost certainly be some evidence of us, with so many humans we would likely leave a good few fossils for a start. We'd leave a lot of plastic as well!
#18 Posted by aquatus1 on 12 March, 2010, 17:03**Lizard, Psyche, play nice.**
#19 Posted by Copasetic on 13 March, 2010, 2:38Silesaurus was different to what most scientists thought the dinosaur ancestors would be like. Silesaurus had many herbivorous features. The new Ornithodiran finds that came out in nature this February highlights a couple of cool things, first that sauropodomorphs, ornithischians and the silesau...
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