For those of you who missed this in Wired:
Computer programmer Mike Taylor was
poking around the vaults of
Taylor, who's doing
his PhD work on sauropod spines, thought the bone looked unique. He was right:
it belonged to brand-new species, dubbed Xenoposeidon proneukus and described in the journal Paleontology. And not only is Xenoposeidon,
which lived 140 million years ago and grew to the size of an elephant, a new species:
it could belong to a whole new sauropod family.
Link to complete
article: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/this-week-in-di.html
Congratulations Mike!