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Dinosaur find in Italy
*** Well-preserved dinosaur found in Italy
Italian paleontologists said Wednesday they had unearthed one of the
best preserved dinosaurs found anywhere in the world, complete with
internal organs and muscles. The young theropod, named Scipionyx
samniticus, is more than 110 million years old and is a distant
cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of all carnivores.
Paleontologists found the hatchling specimen in the Matese mountains
north of Naples. Although it is an area rich in invertebrate fossils
and fish no one imagined it contained dinosaur remains. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553481026-603