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New dinosaur species discovered on Alaska's North Slope


September 22, 2015

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Museum researchers have described a new species of dinosaur based on fossils excavated from Alaska's North Slope. The world's northernmost dinosaurs lived in darkness for months at a time and probably experienced snow. The three known species documented from the North Slope so far are distinct, evidence that the dinosaurs living in polar latitudes in what is now Alaska were not the same species found from the same time periods in lower latitudes.Full Story

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University of Alaska Fairbanks

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