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Geologists dredge up dinosaur from the deep

Core from the ocean floor may hold rare plateosaur find.

Jørn Hurum has hit a scientific jackpot twice. First by finding a dinosaur bone in an oil-drill core sample found off the North Sea, and then by being able to identify the dinosaur from that one tiny sample.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on April 26, 2006 05:25 PM |

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