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Brazilian Bones!
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*** Brazil unearths one of world's oldest dinosaurs
Paleontologists in southern Brazil said Wednesday they had discovered
three bones from one of the world's oldest dinosaurs dating back some
200 million years. "The bones belong to a dinosaur in the prosauropod
suborder which lived in the Triassic age, making it one of the oldest
existing specimens registered in the world," said Max Langer, a
paleontologist at the Catholic University in Rio Grande do Sul state.
The dinosaur was a plant-eating, lizard-like animal about the size of
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