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Word: siamotyrannus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Back in the early cretaceous period, some 120 million years ago, a ferocious, flesh-eating creature roamed Thailand. It had four-inch teeth, measured 21 feet from snout to tail and ate other dinosaurs. When they discovered its bones in 1996 in a jungle riverbed, scientists called it Siamotyrannus isanensis, after the country's old name, Siam, and the impoverished northeastern Thai region where the bones lay, Isaan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vote for Nostalgia | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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