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UTEP researcher uncovers rare dinosaur fossil in Central Texas
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- A University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researcher discovered a dinosaur fossil that may expand the known range of a species that roamed the Earth over 110 million years ago. Jason W. Ricketts, Ph.D., associate professor in UTEP’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, discovered the fossils -– identified as belonging to the dinosaur Tenontosaurus -– while conducting unrelated fieldwork at Indio Mounta…
The discovery of a dinosaur fossil by a researcher at the University of Texas at El Paso could prove that the species to which it belongs lived in a wider area than was thought. Thanks to this discovery, scientists might have to update the map or regions where it was believed that that species existed approximately 115 million years ago. Jason W.
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