It’s hard to image that a plant-eating dinosaur once lived and thrived in the world’s driest desert but that’s exactly what happened many millions of years ago. Scientists discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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Arackar licanantay (meaning “Atacama bones” in the Kunza language) was found by a team of experts that was led by Chilean geologist Carlos Arévalo. The remains – which included portions of a humerus, femur, and ischium, as well as vertebral elements from its back and neck – were unearthed 75 kilometers south of Copiapó.
While it was found in the 1990s, researchers have spent the last several years analyzing the remains. Referred to as a so-called titanosaur (a specific group of sauropods), this never-before-seen species had a small head, long neck, an oddly flat back, and a long tail.
Remains of Giant, Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered in Chile
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New giant dinosaur species discovered in Chile
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