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Two New Dinosaur Species Discovered in Antarctica
Aired February 26, 2004 - 13:53 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: All right. Let's get right over to the extinct creatures desk. Another dinosaur discovery to tell you about. This one near the South Pole.
Scientists believe they've stumbled upon the fossils of two previously undiscovered dinosaurs. The National Science Foundation is unveiling those finds...
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Today.
O'BRIEN: Right now. As we speak.
Daniel Sieberg is here. This is hot off the presses. . Sixty- five million years later, but still hot off the presses.
SIEBERG: Dinosaurs, it turns out, are extinct. But they did announce today -- it was discovered...
O'BRIEN: I'm sorry. Little bit of news there, dinosaurs are extinct.
SIEBERG: Breaking news.
O'BRIEN: OK, thank you, thank you.
SIEBERG: The discovery was actually made back in December. A week apart, two independent research groups working in the Antarctic discovered two -- not one, but two, new species of dinosaur.
Now, the first one was found in a place called James Ross Island, which is considered to be the Antarctic Peninsula. We have an image of where that is in relation to Antarctica.
Miles is going to steer us through and show us.
O'BRIEN: There we go. There's Antarctica. It's the big white blob there. Kind of looks like a rhinoceros.
SIEBERG: Right. And James Ross Island is considered to be the Antarctic Peninsula.
Now, this discover was made of a -- of a carnivore, a meat eating dinosaur the was believed to have lived about 70 million years ago.
It was preserved in some shallow waters. And we can show you some animation of what, essentially, they believe happened at the time. This was about 70 million years ago. There we're seeing an animation or a rendering of what the dinosaur was believed to have looked like. It was in this shallow water. At the time, Antarctica was much different; the landscape was much different. There were these shallow waters.
It drifted out to sea, they believe. Miles, stand by. This is the dramatic part of our footage here, a little bit like "Jurassic Park"...
O'BRIEN: Look at this.
SIEBERG: ... where another creature, apparently, they believe, came up and ate it.
O'BRIEN: Whoa. Whoa.
SIEBERG: That's just the carnivore. As we say, they believe about 70 million years ago. They found some bones and some fossils from it.
Everybody always thinks of dinosaurs, maybe, as "Jurassic Park," or the models you see. And there it is floating to the bottom of what was the ocean store.
O'BRIEN: Wow. These scientists really went to town in the animation, didn't they?
SIEBERG: Amazing.
Now what they found, of course, was not nearly as dramatic as some of that. They found some very small pieces of bone from what they believe is the upper jaw, some teeth fragments, and some leg bones and feet bones. You see what the scientists are displaying there.
Now the other one that they found was a plant-eating dinosaur. This discovery was made at another part of Antarctica.
O'BRIEN: Back to the map for a moment, please. So we can orient folks.
SIEBERG: This should go to -- This is at the Beardmore Glacier, which is also an area that's called Mt. Kirkpatrick.
Now this area, back in -- this is 200 million years ago, so these two dinosaurs lived in very different periods of time. The first one in what's known as Cretaceous period. This one much older, about 200 million years ago.
And in this case, Mt. Kirkpatrick is where they discovered this one. And this is a plant-eating dinosaur, they believe. A little different than the other one. And these two independent research groups were working separately. They did make this discovery within about a week of each other.
And what they discovered there was a pelvic bone. And they believe this one was about 30 feet long, about six to eight feet tall...
O'BRIEN: Actually, it looks a lot like the other stuff...
SIEBERG: Yes. You're thinking of the map?
O'BRIEN: Looks like the same stuff.
SIEBERG: But anyway...
O'BRIEN: You've seen one bone you've seen them all.
SIEBERG: ... in December. So some amazing discoveries, and we'll be hearing more about them.
O'BRIEN: And so the truth of the matter is, they just keep discovering different strains of dinosaur as the years go on.
SIEBERG: Right. These are two new species which are pretty amazing. Unnamed yet. So we'll have to see what they name them. We've got a carnivore and plant eater.
O'BRIEN: Antarctica-saurus, or something like that.
SIEBERG: Something along those lines, I'm sure.
O'BRIEN: Daniel Sieberg, always a pleasure having you drop by. Thank you very much.
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Aired February 26, 2004 - 13:53 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: All right. Let's get right over to the extinct creatures desk. Another dinosaur discovery to tell you about. This one near the South Pole.
Scientists believe they've stumbled upon the fossils of two previously undiscovered dinosaurs. The National Science Foundation is unveiling those finds...
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Today.
O'BRIEN: Right now. As we speak.
Daniel Sieberg is here. This is hot off the presses. . Sixty- five million years later, but still hot off the presses.
SIEBERG: Dinosaurs, it turns out, are extinct. But they did announce today -- it was discovered...
O'BRIEN: I'm sorry. Little bit of news there, dinosaurs are extinct.
SIEBERG: Breaking news.
O'BRIEN: OK, thank you, thank you.
SIEBERG: The discovery was actually made back in December. A week apart, two independent research groups working in the Antarctic discovered two -- not one, but two, new species of dinosaur.
Now, the first one was found in a place called James Ross Island, which is considered to be the Antarctic Peninsula. We have an image of where that is in relation to Antarctica.
Miles is going to steer us through and show us.
O'BRIEN: There we go. There's Antarctica. It's the big white blob there. Kind of looks like a rhinoceros.
SIEBERG: Right. And James Ross Island is considered to be the Antarctic Peninsula.
Now, this discover was made of a -- of a carnivore, a meat eating dinosaur the was believed to have lived about 70 million years ago.
It was preserved in some shallow waters. And we can show you some animation of what, essentially, they believe happened at the time. This was about 70 million years ago. There we're seeing an animation or a rendering of what the dinosaur was believed to have looked like. It was in this shallow water. At the time, Antarctica was much different; the landscape was much different. There were these shallow waters.
It drifted out to sea, they believe. Miles, stand by. This is the dramatic part of our footage here, a little bit like "Jurassic Park"...
O'BRIEN: Look at this.
SIEBERG: ... where another creature, apparently, they believe, came up and ate it.
O'BRIEN: Whoa. Whoa.
SIEBERG: That's just the carnivore. As we say, they believe about 70 million years ago. They found some bones and some fossils from it.
Everybody always thinks of dinosaurs, maybe, as "Jurassic Park," or the models you see. And there it is floating to the bottom of what was the ocean store.
O'BRIEN: Wow. These scientists really went to town in the animation, didn't they?
SIEBERG: Amazing.
Now what they found, of course, was not nearly as dramatic as some of that. They found some very small pieces of bone from what they believe is the upper jaw, some teeth fragments, and some leg bones and feet bones. You see what the scientists are displaying there.
Now the other one that they found was a plant-eating dinosaur. This discovery was made at another part of Antarctica.
O'BRIEN: Back to the map for a moment, please. So we can orient folks.
SIEBERG: This should go to -- This is at the Beardmore Glacier, which is also an area that's called Mt. Kirkpatrick.
Now this area, back in -- this is 200 million years ago, so these two dinosaurs lived in very different periods of time. The first one in what's known as Cretaceous period. This one much older, about 200 million years ago.
And in this case, Mt. Kirkpatrick is where they discovered this one. And this is a plant-eating dinosaur, they believe. A little different than the other one. And these two independent research groups were working separately. They did make this discovery within about a week of each other.
And what they discovered there was a pelvic bone. And they believe this one was about 30 feet long, about six to eight feet tall...
O'BRIEN: Actually, it looks a lot like the other stuff...
SIEBERG: Yes. You're thinking of the map?
O'BRIEN: Looks like the same stuff.
SIEBERG: But anyway...
O'BRIEN: You've seen one bone you've seen them all.
SIEBERG: ... in December. So some amazing discoveries, and we'll be hearing more about them.
O'BRIEN: And so the truth of the matter is, they just keep discovering different strains of dinosaur as the years go on.
SIEBERG: Right. These are two new species which are pretty amazing. Unnamed yet. So we'll have to see what they name them. We've got a carnivore and plant eater.
O'BRIEN: Antarctica-saurus, or something like that.
SIEBERG: Something along those lines, I'm sure.
O'BRIEN: Daniel Sieberg, always a pleasure having you drop by. Thank you very much.
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