11-year-old boy finds original jaw bone of dinosaur


11-year-old boy finds original jaw bone of dinosaur

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/03/content_8925813.htm
http://diariodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp?section_id=13&id_news=343287

Potentially great story, young Jacob Walen finds a theropod dinosaur bone in Portugal 5 years ago. But do we get to see any photos of it? Not for but one crap one at the end. Instead we get mostly pictures of a blond haired kid next to a reconstructed skull mount in a museum. How incredibly boring!

One has to go to a Portuguese article to find such details: Apparently, the boy and his father were walking along the beach in the summer of 2003 and they happened across what appeared to the Jacob to be a piece of wood, but was actually a fossil skull bone from a predatory dinosaur known as Torvosaurus, also known from the Jurassic western U.S.!

This isn't the first known transatlantic Jurassic dinosaur in Portugal. It appears Allosaurus and Stegosaurus also had a wide distribution. Early tyrannosaur ancestors (Aviatyrannis) and birdlike dromaeosaurid teeth have also been reported in Portugal. There is also a Camptosaurus-like ornithopod known as Draconyx.

If you follow this link, you can download many papers by Portuguese paleontologist Octavio Mateus. Much of his work describes Portuguese dinosaurs, and some of his papers deal with the subject of transatlantic dinosaur distributions.

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irvingl2001's picture

Very cool for the boy

That's gotta be one of the top dreams for any kid (finding a dinosaur bone, that is)