(2019·石家庄模拟)Mike Taylor, a university student in the study of prehistoric life forms for his Ph.D., discovered a brandnew species of dinosaur, while__1__(conduct) research at the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom.This new species __2__(identify) as part of the sauropod family of dinosaurs.The sauropods were fourlegged, vegetarian dinosaurs, __3__very long necks and tails, and relatively small skulls and brains.One of their most unusual __4__(characteristic) was their nostrils, which were higher up in their head, almost near the eyes.So far, the sauropod bones__5__ (find) in every continent except Antarctica, and they are one of the longest living group of dinosaurs, spanning over 100 million years.This new species, __6__ (name) Xenoposeidon proneneukos, which means forward sloping, lived about 140 million years ago.
Mike Taylor, __7__ has spent five years studying sauropod vertebrae, __8__ (immediate) knew that this was the backbone of a sauropod.However, he had never seen one like this before.__9__(far) research proved this was indeed a new kind of sauropod.The bone, which had been discovered in__10__ 1890's, had never been examined.
