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Potoooooooo
June 10, 2008, 09:11 PM
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080610-australia-dinosaur.html
A rare fossil found in Australia suggests dinosaurs were able to trek north across a vast continent, scientists report.

The hundred-million-year-old fossil belonged to a two-legged meat-eater, or theropod, that is closely related to Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, a giant, big-clawed carnivore from Argentina, says a team led by Nathan Smith of the University of Chicago's Field Museum.The discovery could help redraw the world map during the dinosaur era, researchers add.

Ezkerraldean
June 11, 2008, 07:12 AM
i've heard the claim before that south america was joined by an isthmus to antarctica at times in the cretaceous. i guess this counts as more evidence for it.