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Duck-billed dinosaur

June 29 , 2023 491 days 623 0
  • Remains of a species of herbivorous dinosaur, previously unknown in the southern hemisphere, have been discovered in Chile
  • It was challenging long-held beliefs about the range of duck-billed dinosaurs.
  • The Gonkoken nanoi lived 72 million years ago in the extreme south of what is now Chilean Patagonia.
  • Very ancient species of hadrosaurs, a type of duck-billed dinosaur common in North America, Asia and Europe.
  • They lived during the Cretaceous period, from 145 to 66 million years ago.
  • Gonkoken nanoi, the fifth species of dinosaur discovered in Chile, was actually found in 2013.

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