New Dinosaur Species Found in South Brazil
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Scientists have found well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225 million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest relatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists said Thursday.
“That sheds light on life on Earth when there was one super-continent here,” said Alexander Kellner of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro Federal University. The new dinosaur, named Unaysaurus tolentinoi, was relatively small, about 8 feet, walked on its hind feet, as did most early dinosaurs, and was herbivorous.
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