Friday, November 16, 2007

Dinosaur with Vacuum Cleaner Mouth

WASHINGTON (AP) — A dinosaur with a strange jaw designed to hoover-up food grazed in what is now the Sahara Desert 110 million years ago. Remains of the creature that "flabbergasted" paleontologist Paul Sereno went on display Thursday at the headquarters of the National Geographic Society, where they will remain until March.

Sereno and colleagues recovered, assembled and named the creature — Nigersaurus taqueti — that he said seems to break all the rules, yet still existed.
We are still awaiting confirmation that the creature was driven extinct by the evolution of cat and dog hair.