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Published online 21 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070319-5

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Burrowing dinosaur unearthed

Fossilized family broadens picture of extinct reptiles.

The discovery of a dinosaur family fossilized in its burrow could make us rethink where the animals lived, how they behaved, and even what wiped them out, say researchers.

David Varricchio of Montana State University in Bozeman and his colleagues found the jumbled remains of two juveniles and an adult together in what looks to be the remains of a custom-built hole in southern Montana.

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