Scientists have discovered a new type of dinosaur, about 4 meters long, 1.5 meters high, and weighing up to a ton, that was the ancestor of the Diplodocus, and announced Scientists The discovery of two semi-complete skull fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur in Jameson Land, east Greenland. This new type of dinosaur bears the scientific name Issi saaneq. Which in the local Inuit language means “cold bone”According to the RT website.
The newly discovered dinosaur lived. During the late Triassic period about 214 million years ago, when eastern Greenland was connected to Europe.
the two skulls
And RT revealed that the “cold bone” dinosaur originally belonged to a group of long-necked dinosaurs called semi-lizards or lizard-likes. (sauropodomorphs), which include sauropods, Some of the largest terrestrial animals ever evolved from this group, including the Diplodocus.
The study of the two skulls
Paleontologists from Harvard University recovered the remains, which contain two nearly complete skulls, on expeditions to Greenland during the early 1990s. But scientists were not able to properly study the remains and classify them as a new species, until now.
And the two skulls once belonged to a young dinosaur, and another to an older one, and the differences between the two are slight and related only to size, which indicates that they are of the same species..
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