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Total Number of Dinosaur Species

Posted by Vikas Sah on Friday, September 29, 2006

1,844 is the number of dinosaur species that ever existed, as estimated by a University of Pennsylvania paleontologist and a Swarthmore statistician.

527 is the total number of dinosaur species that have been discovered so far.

(SOURCE: Time Magazine)

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Oldest ever child

Posted by Vikas Sah on Friday, September 29, 2006

3.3 million is the age in years of a skeleton of a 3-year-old girl recently unearthed in Ethiopia. The remains are thought to the oldest even found of a child. (SOURCE: Time Magazine)

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