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The dinosaur s incomplete skeletal remains were discovered south of the city of Neuquen.
Scientists have unearthed in Argentina s Patagonian wilderness fossils of what may be the oldest-known member of the dinosaur group known as Titanosaurs that includes the largest land animals in Earth s history.
Researchers said on Monday the fossils represent a dinosaur species named Ninjatitan zapatai that lived 140 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. They identified Ninjatitan as a Titanosaur, a group of long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on four pillar-like legs.
The dinosaur s incomplete skeletal remains were discovered south of the city of Neuquen. The researchers said Ninjatitan demonstrated that the Titanosaurs as a group first appeared longer ago than previously known.
Scientists have unearthed fossils of what may be the oldest-known member of the dinosaur group known as titanosaurs that includes the largest land animals in Earth's history.
The fossil of a huge dinosaur that lived around 140 million years ago has been unearthed in Argentine Patagonia and it could be the oldest titanosaur known.
Titanosaurs were a group of large long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on four pillar-like legs and were among the largest land animals in Earth s history.
The incomplete remains of the member of the new titanosaur species which experts have named Ninjatitan zapatai were found south of the city of Neuquen.
The researchers said the discovery of Ninjatitan demonstrates that titanosaurs, as a group, first appeared longer ago than was previously known.
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