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1Triceratops trio unearthed in Wyoming
2There were three of them, one of them probably a
child, and at least one met a gruesome end at the
hands of a terrifying predator (Tyrannosaurus
rex). About 67 million years later, a Wyoming
rancher led scientists to their remains. Now
experts are digging out one of the most complete
skeletons yet of a Triceratops, the three-horned,
plant-eating dinosaur that was one of the last of
the giant reptiles. Excavation began in May and
is expected to take about a month. The dig is
going on near Newcastle, Wyoming, more than 200
miles north of Cheyenne. Triceratops lived in the
twilight of the Cretaceous Period, about a half a
million years before the dinosaurs' extinction.
"This is potentially a site where we can learn
the behavior of two different species."
3In Other News
- Things in Miami took a bizarre turn late in the
game as Flo Rida's manager was ejected for
talking trash to the Pacers bench. - The sometimes deadly MERS-CoV virus has spread to
Italy, the World Health Organization said in
statements this weekend. Sunday's announcement
that two female patients had contracted the virus
follows one Saturday that said a 45-year-old man,
who had recently traveled to Jordan, had become
infected. They are the first three known cases in
Italy. - Park rangers suspended their search Monday
afternoon for a teenage swimmer who was swept
over a nearly 600-foot waterfall in California's
Yosemite National Park over the weekend. Aleh
Kalman had been swimming about 150 feet from the
edge of the Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon
when he was caught up in the swift current of the
Merced River. The 19-year-old Sacramento resident
had gone to the park with a church group. "We
believe it's impossible to survive a fall like
that," park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said. Officials
also announced Monday that a 28-year-old English
climber on El Capitan was killed by a falling
rock on Sunday.