German Scientists Find ‘Dinosaur Graveyard’
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
German scientists have unearthed the biggest collection of dinosaur fossils found in the country, including bones that could be of an unknown species, researchers said Wednesday.
“You could call it a dinosaur graveyard,” said Klaus-Peter Lanser of the Museum of Natural History in Muenster. Scientists think the 130-million-year-old fossils come from six species, and some could be related to the carnivores Velociraptor and Deinonychus.
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