Another Member of the Dinosaur family by Barbora Kasparova

Dinosaurs have enjoyed great attention of the public in the past decades. Movies like the 1993's Jurassic Park by Steven Spielberg caused hysteria over anything dino-related. The fact that we are still not quite sure just how they vanished from the earth's surface is surely one of the reasons. Several theories appeared such as the climate change theory of their extinction, the nemesis theory, a.k.a. the outer space theory, or disease theory. Although the dino-boom in its biggest form is over at the moment, scientists still devote their research to the dinosaur topic. There are 335 know dinosaur species at the moment, and just now another one was added to the family. Nigersaurus taquet he was named, since his remains were first discovered in Niger by French scientist Taquet. Thanks to the work of the National Geographic paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team he'll be viewed in the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington D.C. until March 2008. The curiosity of this 30-foot-long giant is in his eating manners. His mouth, designed as what would be described today as a vacuum cleaner-like device, used to hold up to 500 hundred teeth, but despite such an army of teeth, his bite was rather weak, suitable more "…for nipping rather than chomping or chewing", according Sereno. (http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-12/bizarre-dinosaurs/nigersaurus.html?fs=animals-panther.nationalgeographic.com&fs=www.nationalgeographic.com)

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by Barbora Kasparova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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