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Raptorex discovered

By The World ⋅ September 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment
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For today’s Geo Quiz we’re searching for a Raptorex. You wouldn’t want to run into this creature called the Raptorex. It has powerful jaws, and strong legs suited for running down its prey. Don’t worry its a dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago.

Weighing as little as 1/100th that of its descendant T. rex, the 125-million year old Raptorex shows off the distinctive body plan of this most dominant line of predatory dinosaurs. This image is based on a fossil skeleton discovered in Inner Mongolia, China. Illustration: Todd Marshall

Weighing as little as 1/100th that of its descendant T. rex, the 125-million year old Raptorex shows off the distinctive body plan of this most dominant line of predatory dinosaurs. This image is based on a fossil skeleton discovered in Inner Mongolia, China.

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Here are the clues:  It was an autonomous region of China that borders Mongolia and Russia.  The capital city is Hohhot.  Back in the 13th century, this was part of the great Mongol empire…(said to be the largest empire in history).

So try to name this region of vast grasslands at the edge of the Gobi Desert where the raptorex once roamed….

Geo Answer:
The fossilized skeleton of a dinosaur from the Mesozoic period is generating a lot of interest among scientists. Paul Sereno is part of a US-Chinese team studying the skeleton. Sereno is a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. He says the fossil is a newly-identified kind of dinosaur called Raptorex. The answer to our Geo Quiz in Inner Mongolia. We spoke with Paul Sereno.

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