Artist rendering by the National Science Foundation showing the newly discovered carnivorous dinosaur Tawa hallae, from the Triassic period.

New Dinosaur Found      Newly discovered dinosaur fossils from New Mexico are helping scientists understand the early development of these creatures. According to Sterling Nesbitt, University of Texas at Austin, the fiiii

the first dinosaurs developed about 230 million years ago, and T. hallae skeletons date back to about 230 million years ago. While many dinosaurs are known from only a few bones, researchers found bones of five to seven skeletons of T. hallae. The new dinosaur is name for Tawa, the Hopi word for the Puebloan sun god, and late amateur paleontologist Ruth Hall Museum at Ghost Ranch.