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Cops: Man Humps Dinosaur in Park

By Ben MuessigSep 23rd 2010 – 11:42AM
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Raul Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion/AFP/Getty Images

(Sept. 23) -- Days after Spanish researchers announced the discovery of a humpbacked dinosaur, police in Pennsylvania are searching for a man spotted humping a dinosaur. Law enforcement officials say a man exposed himself to two teenage girls in a park in Chester County on Sept. 19, then began "simulating a sex act with a...

Quasimodosaurus: Hunchback Dinosaur Is a Spine-Tingling Discovery

By Michael McLaughlinSep 23rd 2010 – 8:01AM
Raul Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion/AFP/Getty Images

Raul Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion/AFP/Getty Images

(Sept. 23) -- Move over, Quasimodo, a newly discovered dinosaur could become the biggest hunchback the world has ever known. Three Spanish paleontologists announced their discovery of Concavenator corcovatus -- which means "the hunchback hunter from Cuenca" -- in the journal Nature. The carnivorous dino lived about 130...

Ring the Bells: Quasimodo Discovered in British Archive?

By Theunis BatesAug 16th 2010 – 5:05PM
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LONDON (Aug. 16) -- Quasimodo is one of literature's great tragic heroes: kind and gentle, yet doomed by a hideous deformity. But a recent discovery by a British archivist hints that the bell-ringer from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" wasn't merely a product of Victor Hugo's vivid imagination; he may have been inspired by...

Background on hunchback

Kyphosis (from Greek - kyphos, a hump), also called roundback or Kelso's hunchback, is a condition of over-curvature of the thoracic vertebrae (upper back).

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