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- 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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