JAKARTA – Fossil dinosaur two-legged, Issi saaneq, who lived about 214 million years ago in Greenland, scientists discovered.
Launching Sky News on Wednesday (10/11), this dinosaur was a medium-sized, long-necked herbivore, and the predecessor to the sauropods, the largest land animals that ever lived.
An international team of researchers from Portugal, Denmark and Germany, including Martin Luther Halle-Wittenberg University (MLU) explained that the dinosaur’s name refers to the Greenlandic Inuit language and means “cold bone”.
This dinosaur fossil will be transferred to the Danish Museum of Natural History.
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Scientists, in the journal Diversity, said dinosaur fossils in the form of two intact skulls were first discovered during excavations in 1994 in East Greenland by paleontologists from Harvard University.
One of the specimens was originally thought to be from Plateosaurus, a long-necked dinosaur that lived in Germany, France, and Switzerland during the Triassic Period.
“It is exciting to find close relatives of the famous Plateosaurus, more than a hundred of which have been found here in Germany,” said Dr Oliver Wings of MLU.
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