The seismosaurus is the worlds biggest dinosaur. It is 50 meters long and 100,000 pounds.
It was discovered by 4 hikers in New Mexico in 1979. Their names were Arthur Loy, Jan Cummings, Frank Walker, and Bill Norlander. They announced that they found a dinosaur, but the government did not have the tools to dig it up. In 1985 a man named David Gillete decided to dig it up. It took him about 7 years to dig it up.In 1991 he had uncovered it, but he had to try to mach it's bones with other dinosaur bones to see if it was that dinosaur. He finally announced that it was a new dinosaur. He called it the Seismosaurus which means earthquake lizard. It's name suits it because it was big enough to shake the ground when it walks.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Sue The T-rex
In the summer of 1990, a group of
workers from the Black Hills Institute were looking for fossils at
the Cheyenne River Reservation. They found an Edmontosaurus's bones, and
they were ready to leave, but they had a flat tire. Sue Hendrickson decided
to explore the cliffs while team went to town to fix the flat. She
found two small fossils. When the team came back, she showed the
fossils to them,and they identified them as T-rex fossils.
Friday, October 28, 2011
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