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Discovery of 'tidal giant'--a new Egyptian dinosaur--reported in Science

The partial skeleton of a massive sauropod dinosaur, unearthed at an Egyptian site that its discoverers call "dinosaur heaven," makes its debut in the 1 June issue of the international journal , the dinosaur is one of the largest ever discovered from the Cretaceous period (about 146 to 65 million years ago) in Africa, and may be the second most massive dinosaur ever found.... ... The discovery...

Purdue Herbarium -- A Noah's Ark For Egyptian Plants

. .WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- As Egyptians carve out more living space by irrigating the .desert, Purdue University researchers are helping inventory and preserve plants that .otherwise might be lost as the water flows in. .Almost 90 percent of Egypt's 62 million people live on just 4 percent of its territory, .a narrow swath of land along the Nile River. Population density along the water's .edge...