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Nearly intact Tarbosaurus dinosaur skeleton uncovered in Gobi

Thursday, 24 July 2008

A Mongolian-Japanese team announced Wednesday that they had discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a Tarbosaurus dinosaur.

Found in the Gobi Desert, the Tarbosaurus is closely related to the better-known Tyrannosaurus.

Experts believe this is the first discovery of so well preserved a skeleton of a young dinosaur of this species.

The skeleton is said to date back 70 million years. It was discovered by members of the Center of Paleontology under the Mongolian Academy of Sciences working with members from Hayashibara Co., a biotechnology firm based in Okayama, Japan.

An adult Tarbosaurus would normally grow to a length of 12 meters. The skeleton found in the Gobi measures 2 meters long and is believed to have been five years old when it died.

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