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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
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