This 6 April 2011 video in Portuguese is about Angolatitan adamastor.
From Associated Press:
Angolatitan adamastor: New Dinosaur, ‘Angolan Giant,’ Discovered
By DONNA BRYSON
03/16/11 01:39 PM
JOHANNESBURG — Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it’s a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emerging from decades of war.
A paper published Wednesday in the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences describes a long-necked, plant-eating sauropod, among the largest creatures ever to have walked the earth. The international team that found and identified the fossilized forelimb bone say it is from a previously unknown dinosaur, citing unique skeletal characteristics.
The fossil was found along with fish and shark teeth in what would have been a sea bed 90 million years ago, leading its discoverers to believe the dinosaur might have been washed into the sea and torn apart by ancient sharks.
The new dinosaur has been dubbed Angolatitan adamastor – Angolatitan means “Angolan giant” and the adamastor is a sea giant from Portuguese sailing myths.
Matthew F. Bonnan, a sauropod expert at Western Illinois University, was not involved with the Angolan research. But after reading the report, he said he expected their claim to have found a new dinosaur to hold up.
“I think they’ve been very careful,” he said, adding the find could add to knowledge about how sauropods adapted to different environments.
Bonnan also said it was “really cool” to see such research coming out of Angola.
“The neat thing about dinosaur paleontology is that it’s becoming more global,” he said, saying that was giving scientists a global perspective on the evolution of dinosaurs.
“The more people and places that we involve in science, the better off we all are,” Bonnan said.
The researchers in Angola say their PaleoAngola project that yielded the fossil, started in 2005, is the first systematic paleontological expedition in Angola since the early 1960s.
“Angola has had more than its share of civil war,” said Dutch project member Anne Schulp of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht. He said science hasn’t been a priority, but “Angola is catching up right now.”
An anti-colonial war broke out in Angola in the 1960s, and civil war followed independence from Portugal in 1975. The fighting ended in 2002 when the army killed rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. The country was left littered with land mines and impoverished. The discovery of oil in recent years has set off an economic boom, but many Angolans have been left behind.
The first complete sauropod embryo has been discovered, still sheltered inside its egg some 110 million years after it was laid: here.
It turns out huge sauropods had a similar body temperature to humans: here.
The energetics of low browsing in sauropods: here.
Tooth chemistry reveals sauropod sojourns: here.
Seduced by the sight of wildebeest swarming across the Serengeti? Imagine it’s herds of sauropods: here.
Evolution, sex and dinosaur necks: here.
Rare dinosaur found in Canada’s oil sands
(Reuters) – The Canadian oil sands, a vast expanse of tar and sand being mined for crude oil, yielded treasure of another kind this week when an oil company worker unearthed a 110-million-year-old dinosaur fossil that wasn’t supposed to be there.
The fossil is an ankylosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur with powerful limbs, armor plating and a club-like tail. Finding it in this region of northern Alberta was a surprise because millions of years ago the area was covered by water.
“We’ve never found a dinosaur in this location,” Donald Henderson, a curator at Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum, which is devoted to dinosaurs, said on Friday. “Because the area was once a sea, most finds are invertebrates such as clams and ammonites.”
The ankylosaur that was found by the oil worker is expected to be about 5 meters (16-1/2 feet) long and 2 meters (6-1/2 feet) wide.
“It is pretty amazing that it survived in such good condition,” said Henderson, noting the fossil was three dimensional, not flattened by the heavy rock sediment.
“It is also the earliest complete dinosaur that we have from this province.”
The fossil was found on Wednesday by a Suncor Energy shovel operator who was clearing ground ahead of development. By a quirk of fate, the worker had visited the Royal Tyrrell dinosaur museum in southern Alberta just the week before.
Henderson suggested he may have had dinosaurs on the brain. “Maybe his mind was subconsciously prepared.”
Suncor has suspended work at the site and has given scientists a three-week window to remove the fossil and ship it to the Royal Tyrrell museum.
The last major fossil find in northern Alberta was a giant reptile called an ichthyosaur, which was found 10 years ago near Fort McMurray.
(Editing by Peter Galloway)
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Dinos may have used long necks “vacuum-
cleaner” style:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110323_sauropod
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