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Dinosaur find, plastinated camels, fighting in Syria, classic car show and more in the day in photos News and feature images around the world.
Paul Sereno, a paleontologist and dinosaur specialist at the University of Chicago, reported in the online journal ZooKeys on Wednesday the discovery of this new species of plant-eating dinosaur, which dates to some 200 million years ago. The odd-looking species boasted tiny, one-inch-long jaws, quills like a porcupine, a parrotlike beak and fangs like a vampire. The announcement was belated: The specimen was first chipped out of a slab of red rock in southern Africa in the 1960s, and Sereno first viewed it in 1983 at Harvard University. Sereno told the New York Times that when he first saw it,“ my eyes popped, as it was clear this was a new species.”
Tyler Keillor
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University of Chicago via AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 4, 2012
Angelina Walley, wife of the German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, poses with a plastinated camel during a preview of the exhibit “Koerperwelten der Tiere” (“Body Worlds of Animals”) at the Walter Zoo in Gossau, Switzerland. The exhibition of von Hagens’s polymer-preserved animals will be open to public through Jan.13.
Miro Kuzmanovic
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Reuters
Oct. 2, 2012
Agronomist Helene Beaumont stands next to a toilet built by Ecosphere Technologies in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. An army of worms is at work in the toilet, devouring voraciously every bit of matter that falls upon them. But the new toilet doesn't come cheap: The price is about 38,000 Canadian dollars. But it needs no electricity, no water and very little maintenance.
Michel Viatteau
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 4, 2012
Police officers search a garden as they look for missing schoolgirl April Jones in Esgairgeiliog, Wales. Police continued to question a man they have identified as Mark Bridger about the disappearance of 5-year-old girl, who went missing from her home town of Machynlleth on Monday.
Rebecca Naden
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Reuters
Oct. 5, 2012
Demonstrators clash with police officers outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Britain's High Court is set to rule Friday afternoon on whether radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terrorist suspects can be extradited to the United States — judgments the government hopes will clear the final hurdle to their extradition after years of legal wrangling.
Kirsty Wigglesworth
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AP
Oct. 5, 2012
Lawrence Mathenge, representative of the Mau Mau War Veterans Association, celebrates the announcement of a legal decision in Britain's High Court concerning Mau Mau veterans, while holding a ceremonial whisk, at the offices of the Kenya Human Rights Commission in Nairobi. The court ruled Friday that three Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule can proceed with compensation claims against the British government.
Ben Curtis
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AP
Oct. 4, 2012
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez greets supporters in the rain during his closing reelection campaign rally in the nation’s capital, Caracas.
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Reuters
Oct. 4, 2012
Supporters of Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, one wearing a mask representing President Hugo Chavez, attend Capriles’s closing campaign rally in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The presidential elections will be held Oct. 7.
Fernando Llano
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AP
Oct. 4, 2012
A surfer bails off his board as he works a wave near the pier in Jacksonville Beach, Fla.
Bob Mack
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Florida Times-Union via AP
Oct. 4, 2012
A model presents a creation by Pakistani designer Amin Gulgee at a fashion show in Karachi, Pakistan, during the country’s biggest annual trade fair showcasing the largest collection of Pakistan’s export merchandise and services.
Asif Hassan
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 5, 2012
A security guard stands in front of Jonathan Wateridge’s work entitled “Jungle Scene with Plane Wreck” during a press preview at Christie’s auction house in London. The works make up part of the “Post War And Contemporary Art Auction,” which will take place Oct. 11 and 12.
Dan Kitwood
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Getty Images
Oct. 4, 2012
A man cries in a hallway of the Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, after his daughter was hit during a Syrian air force strike over a school where hundreds of refugees had taken shelter.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Oct. 4, 2012
Doctors try to save the life of a boy who was shot by a Syrian army sniper at Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Oct. 4, 2012
A man cries outside the Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, after his daughter was injured during a Syrian air force strike over a school where hundreds of refugees had taken shelter. The border violence between Turkey and Syria has added a dangerous new dimension to Syria's civil war, dragging Syria’s neighbors deeper into a conflict that activists say has killed 30,000 people since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime began in March 2011.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Oct. 4, 2012
Riot police use pepper gas against Turkish protesters demonstrating against a possible war with Syria during a debate at Turkey's parliament in Ankara. The parliament Thursday authorized the Turkish government to take military action against Syria, as the international community scrambled to defuse tensions heightened by a Syrian artillery strike Wednesday in which five Turkish civilians died.
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AP
Oct. 5, 2012
Turkish protesters hold banners that read “No to war” during a demonstration in Ankara.
Adem Altan
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 4, 2012
Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills plays with his 1-year-old daughter, Chloe, in his boyhood home in Vassar, Mich. Mills is visiting his home town for the first time since losing all four limbs while fighting in Afghanistan. Mills, his wife, Kelsey, and Chloe were the grand marshals of Vassar High School’s homecoming parade Thursday.
Carlos Osorio
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AP
Oct. 4, 2012
Supporters cheer while Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Fishersville, Va. Romney disavowed his controversial remarks dismissing “the 47 percent” of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Thursday night, saying that the comments were “just completely wrong.”
Brian Snyder
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Reuters
Oct. 4, 2012
Romney, right, and his vice presidential nominee, Paul Ryan, greet each other at a campaign event in Fishersville, Va. “Last night was an important night for the country,” Romney said, referring to Wednesday’s presidential debate, before getting cut off by chants of “Romney, Romney.”
Melina Mara
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The Washington Post
Oct. 4, 2012
President Obama speaks to an estimated 30,000 people at a campaign rally in Madison, Wis.
Kevin Lamarque
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Reuters
Oct. 4, 2012
Hundreds of people listen to President Obama as he delivers remarks at a campaign event at Denver’s Sloan’s Lake Park. “It couldn’t have been the real Mitt Romney,” Obama told his supporters, referring to Wednesday’s debate, “because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country all year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy, but the fellow onstage last night did not know anything about that. The real Mitt Romney said we do not need any more teachers in the classroom, but the fellow onstage said he loves teachers, can’t get enough of them.”
Marvin Joseph
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The Washington Post
Oct. 4, 2012
Car aficionados attend the second annual Classic Car Show at Discovery Communications in Silver Spring.
Jeffrey MacMillan
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The Washington Post
This photo, released Friday by Animals Asia, shows one of two rescued bear cubs in a cage after they were seized by Forest Protection Department from smugglers in northern Vietnamese province of Lai Chau. The cubs were transferred into the care of Animals Asia, which then transported them to its Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao, near Hanoi.
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Animals Asia via AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 4, 2012
A woman attends a mass with her dog before getting it blessed at Sao Francisco de Assis Church in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pet owners have their animals blessed every year on the day of Sao Francisco de Assis, Brazil’s patron saint of animals.
Nacho Doce
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Reuters
Oct. 3, 2012
Barb Schmidt inspects her dog-bone-shaped peanut butter biscuits at the Arc in Boise, Idaho. Schmidt and a group of her co-workers were bagging dog biscuits to sell at the city’s See Spot Walk event.
Darin Oswald
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KTVB 7/Idaho Statesman via AP
Oct. 4, 2012
Sam Hanson-Fleming, center, of Portland, Ore., was reunited with his lost dog, Chase, at the Oregon Humane Society. Friend Tommi Hampton and Sam's son, Talon Mitchell-Fleming, 7, joined the reunion. The dog was the subject of a custody battle with a woman who found the husky mix but refused to give him up.
Michael Lloyd
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Portland, Oregonian via AP
Oct. 5, 2012
Mother panda Rauhin holds her baby panda, born Aug.10, at Adventure World in Shirahama, Japan. The baby panda, weighing just under six pounds, was named Yuhin.
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Jiji Press via AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 28, 2012
This image is a mosaic of photographs taken by the telephoto right-eye camera of the Curiosity rover’s Mast Camera before the rover arrived at the “Rocknest” site. Curiosity is soon to sip its initial taste of the Red Planet's sand, beginning its dig into the sand on Saturday. Mission sampling chief Daniel Limonadi said the end of the rover's arm will then shake vigorously and noisily for eight hours, like a Martian martini mixer gone mad. That will vibrate the fine dust grains through the rover’s chemical-testing system to cleanse it of unwanted residual Earth grease.
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NASA via AP
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