Moontanman Posted May 4, 2010 Report Posted May 4, 2010 A Shrunken Giant: Island Dino Magyarosaurus Was a Dwarf, After All ScienceDaily (May 3, 2010) — In 1895, the sister of an eccentric palaeontologist called Franz Baron Nopcsa discovered small dinosaur bones on their family estate in Transylvania. Nopcsa interpreted these as the remains of dwarfed animals that had once lived on an island. Among these finds were a number of bones belonging to a sauropod dinosaur which Nopcsa named Magyarosaurus dacus, after his native country. A shrunken giant: Island dino Magyarosaurus was a dwarf, after all Quote
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