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Peak Web November 9, 2014New dinosaur named by University of Alberta research team A new species of ankylosaur, an armored plant-eating dinosaur with a club for a tail, horns, and a distinctive pattern of grooves and bumps behind its eyes, has finally been given a name. The species was discovered in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in 2000 by a team of paleontologists lead by Dr. Philip Currie of the University of Alberta, but it was only this week that it was given the name Zaraapelta nomadis. The name zaraapelta is a combination of Greek and Mongolian words meaning “hedgehog” and “shield.” Nomadis was…
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EIC October 20, 2014Student swaps sandwiches for stories University of Calgary third-year communications student Sam Sawchuk has begun Sandwich for a Story, an initiative where he provides a homeless person with a sandwich in exchange for the story of how they came to…
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