US Edition230-Million-Year-Old Headless Fossil in Argentina Is One of the World’s Oldest Dinosaurs
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A group of archaeologists from CONICET discovered in the precordillera of La Rioja an almost complete skeleton of a long-necked dinosaur that is estimated to have lived on the planet 230 million years ago.The new species was named Huayracurador jaguensis and constitutes a transcendental finding in Argentine paleontology.
One of the World’s Oldest Dinosaurs Has Been Unearthed in Argentina, and It’s Nearly Intact
High in the remote folds of the Andes, at more than 3,000 meters above sea level, Argentine researchers have unearthed something both ancient and unexpected: the fossilized remains of a small, long-necked dinosaur that could change how we understand the dawn of the dinosaurs. At just two meters long and 18 kilograms in weight, the creature is not imposing by modern standards. But its age—more than 230 million years—and its anatomy place it at th…
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