Re: DubaiDino

[Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>]

Are the white stripes on the skeleton lights?

Dan


On 6/3/2014 8:00 AM, Richard W. Travsky wrote:
> with picture
>
> http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27680520
>
> A competition to find a name for a giant dinosaur skeleton on display 
> in a Dubai shopping centre has just been won by a local bank manager.
>
> Dinosaur enthusiast Johara Al Bayedh's winning suggestion was 
> DubaiDino, one of three names she submitted to the organisers via the 
> #NameTDMDino hashtag. "It's just amazing to have a giant dinosaur 
> fossil in Dubai," she tells The National newspaper. "It's not just 
> educational, but will make people imagine how the world was back 
> then," she adds. The competition attracted more than 6,000 entries.
>
> The Diplodocus longus is 24m (78ft) long and 7.6m tall. The skeleton 
> was found in Wyoming in 2008. Archaeologists think it is more than 155 
> million years old and, with about 90% of the original bones intact, it 
> is one of the most complete fossils of its type yet found. [...]


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