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Published online 26 April 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060424-5

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Geologists dredge up dinosaur from the deep

Core from the ocean floor may hold rare plateosaur find.

Jørn Hurum has hit a scientific jackpot twice. First by finding a dinosaur bone in an oil-drill core sample found off the North Sea, and then by being able to identify the dinosaur from that one tiny sample.

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