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GW Research Team's Dinosaur Discovery Helps Solve Piece of Evolutionary Puzzle


January 28, 2010

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A George Washington University (GW) expedition to the Gobi Desert has enabled researchers to solve the puzzle of how one group of dinosaurs came to look like birds, independent of birds. Until now, there was no direct evidence that dinosaurs of the Alvarezsauridae family lived during the Late Jurassic, approximately 160 million years ago. The newly discovered species of dinosaur was named Haplocheirus sollers (meaning simple, skillful hand) by GW doctoral candidate Jonah Choiniere.Full Story

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