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'Beach Bum' Dino Chilled in Mex

New find reveals crested duckbill hunted by cousin of T. rex

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 13, 2008 12:08 PM CST

(Newser) – A newly discovered duck-billed dinosaur lived on a "very Mediterranean-like" Mexican beach 72 million years ago, paleontologists say. A fossilized skeleton of Velafrons coahuilensis was found in the north-central state of Coahuila—the most complete dinosaur ever found in Mexico, Reuters reports. "Velafrons...   Read full story »

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