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TYRANNOSAURUS II?
Fossils of huge new meat-eating
dinosaur found in Argentina
NEW YORK (AP) -- An amateur
fossil hunter has discovered what may
be the biggest meat-eating dinosaur
known, a fearsome beast that looked
like the longtime record-holder Tyran-
nosaurus rex.
The creature was 41 to 43 feet long
and weighed 6 to 8 tons when it roamed
the grasslands of what is now Argen-
tina, scientists estimate.
It lived about 100 million years ago,
or about 30 million years before T. rex
appeared, said paleontologist Rodolfo
Coria of the Carmen Funes Museum in
Neuquen, Argentina.
A bone-by-bone comparison with
remains of the largest known specimen
of T. rex suggests that the newfound
creature was slightly longer and maybe
three tons heavier, said Coria, who re-
ported the fossil find with an Argentine
colleague in the most recent issue of the
journal Nature.
"This is a monstrous animal," said
University of Chicago paleontologist
Paul Sereno, who has examined the
newfound fossils. "It's probably a bit
bigger than T. rex."
Scientists are uncertain how big T.
rex got. Estimates range from about 40
to 50 feet.
The initial fossil find was made by a
local auto mechanic who hunts dino-
saur bones as a hobby. In honor of the
discoverer, Ruben Carolini, the huge
dinosaur has been named
Giganotosaurus carolinii.
Scientists have recovered about 70
percent of the skeleton, including parts
of the 5-foot-long skull, most of the
vertebrae, both thigh bones and curved,
serrated teeth about 8 inches long. With-
out a complete skeleton scientists can
only estimate the creature's size.
The creature ran on its hind legs and
probably had rather small arms, Coria
said in a telephone interview. Just what
it ate in its environment, which re-
sembled the African savanna, is a mys-
tery, he said.
Despite the overall similarity in ap-
pearance to T. rex, Giganotosaurus was
not closely related to it, and the two
beasts arose independently, Coria said.
T. rex lived in North America, and
there was no land bridge from South
America that could have let
Giganotosaurus or its descendants move
north to become ancestors of T. rex,
Sereno said.
Jack Horner, curator ofpaleontology
at the Museum of the Rockies in
his is a
monstrous ,animal
It's probably a bit
bigger than X3 rex,
Paul Sereno
University of Chicago
paleontologist
Bozeman, Mont., said comparing the
sizes of Giganotosaurus and T. rex is
tricky because dinosaurs grew continu-
ously until they died, rather than stop-
ping at some adult length.
"I don't care who's bigger. That's
not the interesting question," he said.
More important will be finding out
whether Giganotosaurus was a hunter
or a scavenger, he said. T. rex is usually
considered a hunter, but Horner has
suggested it was a scavenger.
In any case, fossils of a meat-eating
dinosaur from North Africa suggest a
beast that was bigger than T. rex, he
said. No analysis of those bones has
been published, he said.
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Oakland Tribune to run manifesto
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The
Oakland Tribune, citing local interest
in the story, will run the full text of the
Unabomber's manifesto today in a
supplement.
The decision came as newsstands
around the San Francisco Bay area
reported a deluge of requests for
Tuesday's Washington Post, which
carried the 35,000-word manuscript
in an agreement with The New York
Times.
The Tribune will run an extra 10,000
or so copies with the eight-page supple-
ment, said Dave Burgin, editor and chief
of the Alameda Newspaper Group, the
paper's parent company.
The treatise was available yesterday
on the Internet at Time Warner's World
Wide Web home page.
"We are not doing it for those rea-
sons," Burgin said. "This is a local story
- the Unabomber may live and work
in this area, and much of the investiga-
tion is in the East Bay."
The address for Time Warner's
Pathfinder home page is: http:/
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