If it seems that a new species of dinosaur is announced every other week, you are correct.
In recent years new finds in China and Argentina have doubled the number of dinosaurs known from those two countries. Over a 14-year period China added 52 new genera to its list of dinosaurs.
At this rate, are we in danger of running out of new dinosaurs to discover? The experts say no, based on an analysis of the locations the finds are coming from. There are still plenty of strata to explore, and good news for aspiring paleontologists, we have probably only scratched the surface of dinosaur diversity.
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Science News 10 Nov. 2004, p. 334
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