Two New Dinosaur Species Found in Antarctica

..... two new species of ….. dinosaur, one..... quick-moving meat-eater and ….. other - ….. giant plant-eater, have been discovered in..... Antarctica,.... U.S. researchers said on Thursday. ….. 70 million-year-old fossils of.... carnivore would have rested for millenniums at..... bottom of..... Antarctic sea, while ….. remains of....1000-foot-long herbivore were found on....top of....mountain. They would have lived in....different Antarctica - one that was warm and wet,....two teams of researchers, both funded by ….. National Science Foundation, said.

....little carnivore - about 6b feet tall - was found on...James Ross Island, off....coast of..... Antarctic Peninsula.

Not yet named,..... animal probably floated out to ….. sea after it died and settled to..... bottom of what was then..... shallow area of..... Weddell Sea, said Judd Case of St. Mary's College of California, who helped find..... fossils. Its bones and teeth suggest it may represent ….. population of two-legged carnivores that survived in..... Antarctic long after other predators took over elsewhere on …… globe. "For whatever reason, they were still hanging out on..... Antarctic continent," Case said in ….. statement.

.... second team led by William hammer of Augustana College in..... Rock island, Illinois found..... 200 million-year-old plant-eater's fossils on..... mountaintop 13,000 feet high near ….. Beardmore Glacier. Now known as Mt. Kirkpatrick,..... area was once..... soft riverbed. Hammer and colleagues were scouring..... area for..... fossils after having found other new species there in..... 1990s.

…... team included Peter Braddock, ….. mountain safety guide. "I jokingly said to him, 'Keep your eyes down. Look for ….. weird things in..... rock'," hammer said in..... statement. "He had marked four or five things he thought were odd, including some fossilized roots. But I realized that one of these things was..... bone:..... part of..... huge pelvis and ilium."...animal would have been..... primitive sauropod -..... long-necked, four-legged grazer similar to..... better known brachiosaurs. "This site is so far removed geographically from any site near its age, it's clearly ….. new dinosaur to Antarctica," hammer said. "We have so few dinosaur specimen from ….. whole continent, compared to any other place, that almost anything we find down there is new to …..science."

Reuters, 2004.