Press Release 04-025 Evidence of a "Lost World": Antarctica
Yields Two Unknown Dinosaur Species February 26, 2004 ARLINGTON,
Va.—Against incredible odds, researchers working in separate
sites, thousands of miles apart in Antarctica have found what
they believe are the fossilized remains of two species of
dinosaurs previously unknown to science. One of the two finds,
which were made less than a week apart, is an early carnivore
that would have lived many millions of years after the other, a
plant-eating beast, roamed the Earth. One was found at the sea
bottom, the other on a mountaintop. Journey to the bottom of the
sea Working on James Ross Island off the coast of the Antarctic
Peninsula, veteran dinosaur hunters Judd Case, James Martin and
their research team believe they have found the fossilized bones
of an entirely new species of carnivorous dinosaur related to
the enormous meat-eating tyrannosaurs and the equally voracious,
but smaller and swifter, velociraptors that terrified movie-
goers in the film "Ju