Recent Fossil Discoveries

 Fossil hunters announced Thursday that bones discovered in Africa in 2000 came

from two previously unknown meat-eating dinosaurs. Paleontologists named one

of their finds, seen here in an artist's rendering, Eocarchariadinops -- or "fierce-eyed

dawn shark" -- for its razor-sharp teeth and bony brow.

The creatures lived at a time when land bridges connected Africa to India and even

Antarctica, which was then a temperate home to dinosaurs. But Africa later became

isolated and its dinosaurs followed unique evolutionary paths scientists have just

begun to uncover.

Fearsome /adj/: terrifying

Paleontologist/n/ : researcher geological periods through the study of fossils

Razor-sharp/adj/ : sharp-edged

Evolutionary/adj/ : developmental, progressive