In Argentina discovered a new dinosaur species

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В Аргентине обнаружили новый вид динозавровWhose remains were found in Patagonia.

Scientists at one of the universities of Miami (USA) found in Argentina previously unknown form madeenah dinosaur that lived approximately 80 million years ago.

These studies can be found in the journal PLOS ONE.

A fossil found in Patagonia (region, rich in bones, late Cretaceous) and named it Murusraptor barrosaensis, which may be the origin of the group known as megaraptor.These dinosaurs walked on two legs, had a large sickle-like claws on the toes that were fast, flexible and with an insatiable appetite, which was nicknamed “the thief giant”.

Other well-known megaraptorids include megaraptor, orcorporate and aerosteon. Some members of this family have been found in Australia and Japan. But this part of the fossilized skeleton was discovered in the Sierra Barrosa, in the North-West Patagonia. The researchers said that it is “one of the most intact skeletons of megaraptor found unusually intact brain.” The dinosaur appears to have been minor, but may have grown specimens are larger and slimmer than he is. These representatives of the “ancient dinosaurs” was comparable in size with aerosteon or arceration”.

Leading researchers Rodolfo Coria from the Consejo Nacional De Cientificas (Argentina) and Philip Currie of the University of Alberta (Canada) are working to study found the fossil of the animal. Despite the fact that the bones are incomplete, they are well preserved for 80 million years. Murusraptor helped scientists to discover unknown information about the skeletal anatomy of a group the Mesozoic predators of megaraptor.

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