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AlbuquerqueExpress.com Thursday 11th March 2010 Volume 070/8
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"I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on healthcare reform. I ask Congress to finish its work, and I look forward to signing this reform into law."
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New Mexico News Brief Thursday, March 11
More news from around the state:NEW MEXICO - Icy road conditions are making travel hazardous this morning in northern New Mexico. State transportation officials say Interstate 25 is icy and snow...

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Washington, Feb 1 : A new study of a fossil of T. rex relative found in New Mexico has revealed that it belonged to a 29-foot-long "destroyer" dinosaur that once reigned over the Wild West some 75 million years ago.

According to a report in National Geographic News, two nearly complete skeletons of the new species, Bistahieversor sealeyi, were discovered in the desolate badlands of New Mexico's Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness.

A "teenager's" skeleton was found between 1989 and 1990, and an adult was unearthed in 1998, according to the researchers.

The fossils had been on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History until recently, so scientists hadn't previously had a chance to study the remains.

Discovering that B. sealeyi is a primitive Tyrannosaurus rex relative-and, like T. rex, part of a group called the tyrannosauroids-is a "big deal," said study co-author Thomas Carr, director of the Carthage College Institute of Paleontology in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

"In and of itself, a relatively complete dinosaur from 75 million years ago in New Mexico is not common. But it's doubly rare to have a predator like this," he said.

Finding the teenaged B. sealeyi skeleton and partial skull gives the scientists "a really unique snapshot of the biological development of this particular dinosaur," he said.

For instance, the team found that a hole above the adult's eyes-one of many air sacs common in tyrannosaur skulls-was not present in the young dinosaur's skeleton.

"This suggests that the hole developed in adulthood," he said, although scientists aren't sure what the hole's function might have been.

"B. sealeyi also had a deep snout like T. rex, though the two species are not closely related," Carr said.

Deeper or shorter snouts may have evolved in concert with a more powerful bite and smaller forearms in tyrannosauroids in western North America and Asia, which were connected during the Cretaceous.

"The main implement of killing was the head, and they needed the power for that," Carr said.

But for some reason, tyrannosauroids in eastern North America retained the more primitive features of shallow snouts and large arms.

For B. sealeyi to have a deep snout suggests that the adaptation evolved early in tyrannosauroids, which opens up new mysteries in tyrannosaur evolution.


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