Charig believed the bones were either from the earliest dinosaur or from

　　a very close relative.Others didn't

　　agree with

　　him，so he never published his findings.The fossilized bones were tucked_away in a storeroom at the Natural History Museum，where Nesbitt and his team recently found them.

　　“What's really neat about this specimen is that it has a lot of history，”Nesbitt said.“Found in the 30's，first described in the 1950s but never published，then its name pops up but is never validated(证实)．Now 80 years later，we're putting it all together.”

　　Nesbitt's team is now planning to do further research on Nyasasaurus parringtoni—this time in the field，not in a storeroom!

　　【解题导语】　科学家可能已经发现了世界上最古老的恐龙——尼亚萨龙，其生存年代比目前已知的最早的恐龙早约一千万至一千五百万年。

　　【长难句解读】　They decided to take a second look at these forgotten fossils，which consist of six vertebrae(椎骨)and an upper arm bone.

　　分析：这是一个复合句。which引导了一个非限制性定语从句，修饰前面的these forgotten fossils。

　　译文：他们决定再一次看看这些被遗忘的化石，它们一共包含六块椎骨和一块上臂骨。

　　5．What do we know about the species of dinosaur“Nyasasaurus parringtoni”？

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