{"id":64817,"date":"2012-11-07T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=64817"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:42:22","slug":"say-hello-to-sauron-the-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/11\/07\/64817-say-hello-to-sauron-the-dinosaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Say hello to Sauron the dinosaur!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say hello to Sauroniops pachytholus<\/em>. The name means ‘eye of Sauron’ in Greek, and it’s a newly announced species of dinosaur that was identified from a single fossil fragment of part of its upper skull found in the Kem Kem region of south-east Morocco in 2007.<\/p>\n

As big as a Tyrannosaurus rex<\/i>, the beast stalked North Africa around 95 million years ago, according to a study published recently in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica<\/b>.<\/p>\n

That fossil included only part the upper skull\u2014including the eye socket, study leader Andrea Cau, of the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini in Bologna, Italy, said by email. “The idea of a predator that is physically known only as its fierce eye reminded me of Sauron, in particular as depicted in Peter Jackson’s movies,” Cau explained. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Ringer Caradoc for the heads-up on the news.<\/p>\n

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