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Once found almost entirely in the western United States and ill Asia, dinosaur fossils are now being discovered on all seven con
Once found almost entirely in the western United States and ill Asia, dinosaur fossils are now being discovered on all seven con
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2014-01-17
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Once found almost entirely in the western United States and ill Asia, dinosaur fossils are now being discovered on all seven continents. A host of new revelations emerged in 1998 that promise to reshape scientists’ views of dinosaurs, including what they looked like and when and where they lived.
It is doubtful that Tyrannosaurus Rex had lips or that Triceratops had cheeks, says Lawrence Witmer, an assistant professor of anatomy at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Witmer was a leading researcher for a study on dinosaur anatomy that was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, which concluded on October 3 in Snowbird, Utah.
Witmer’s study reached its conclusions by using high-tech computerized axial tomography ( CT or CAT) scans &long with comparative anatomy studies. For example, the theory that Triceratops and similar dinosaur species had cheeks was based on past comparisons with mammals such as sheep. But Witmer’s careful analysis found the structure of the tricera tops jaw and skull made it more likely that Triceratops had a beak like that of an eagle. Witmer said that scientists should use birds and crocodiles as models when researching the appearance of dinosaurs.
In early October scientists announced that they had confirmed the discovery of a new type of ceratopsian dinosaur. The dinosaur’s bones, found in New Mexico in 1996, are forcing paleontologists to rethink their theories about when ceratopsians migrated to what is now Noah America.
Scientists previously thought that ceratopsians, the group that included the well-known Triceratops, arrived in North America from Asia between 70 million and 80 million years ago. During this time, the late Cretaceous Period, the cash’s two supercontinents m Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south -- were in the process of pulling apart, cutting dinosaur populations off from each other and interrupting migratory patterns.
The fossilized bones, found by eight-year-old Christopher Wolfe and his father, paleontologist Doug Wolfe of the Mesa Southwest Museum in Arizona, date to about 90 million years ago. This could mean that ceratopsians originated in Noah America and migrated to Asia rather than the reverse, paleontologists said. Doug Wolfe named the important new species of dinosaur Zuniceratops christopheri after his son.
An expedition from the Universities of Alaska in Anchorage and Fairbanks has discovered a region in remote northern Alaska so rich in fossilized dinosaur tracks that team members dubbed it the "dine expressway". The trampled area was found during the summer of 1998 on Alaska’s Noah Slope near the Brooks Range.
The tom found 13 new track sites and made casts from the prints of five different types of dinosaurs. The rock in which the prints wore found dates to more than 100 million years ago, or about 25 million years older than the previously discovered signs of dinosaurs in the Arctic region. Paleontologists said that the new findings provide important evidence that dinosaurs migrated between Asia and Noah America during the early and mid-Cretaceous Period, before Asia split off into its own continent.
Two rich fossil sites in the hills of Bolivia have been recently discovered, exciting paleontologists and dinosaur buffs. This discovery includes one of the most spectacular dinosaur trackways over found,
The discovery of a large site in the mountain region of Kila Kila in southern Bolivia was announced in early October. Here scientists found the tracks of at least two unknown species of dinosaur. These included a large quadruped ( four-foot ed) dinosaur that wall probably about 20 m ( about 70 ft) long.
The other site, located not far from the Bolivian city of Sucre, was uncovered in a cement quarry by workers several years ago but was not brought to paleontologists’ attention until the middle of 1998. The site features a vertical wall covered with thousands of dinosaur prints representing more than 100 different species. The tracks date back to between 65 million and 70 million years ago. Since dinosaurs are believed to have died out around 65 million years ago, the prints were likely made by some of the last dinosaurs on cash.
Scientists speculated that the tracks were made at the edge of a lake or swamp and were then hardened and preserved, The rock containing the tracks was then pushed into a vertical position over millions of years of geologic activity. Dinosaur eggs have also been found at the site, which paleontologists are working to preserve before it falls victim to erosion. Paleontologists hope to study the site and learn about the diet and physical characteristics of the dinosaurs that are represented there,
The discovery of dinosaur fossil sites in Bolivia is exciting because of the following reasons EXCEPT ______.
选项
A、they are found in a continent other than Asia and North Continent
B、the largest dinosaurs in the world are found in this discovery
C、there are some unknown species of dinosaurs found this time
D、the dinosaurs were believed to be some of the last ones on earth
答案
B
解析
从第一段中看,以往恐龙遗迹几乎都在亚洲和北美洲,而这次在南美洲发现,意义重大,所以A是正确的。倒数第三段中讲所发现的遗迹中证明至少有二种以前不为人所知的恐龙种类,因此C也是正确的。D说这些恐龙可能属于地球上最后的一批恐龙,这在倒数第二段中有说明。而B说发现了世界上最大的恐龙。事实上,倒数第三段里只讲了该种恐龙的尺寸,但没有说是否是最大的,故B是错的。
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