‘Coahuilasaurus lipani’, the new dinosaur species discovered in northern Mexico

‘Coahuilasaurus lipani’, the new dinosaur species discovered in northern Mexico

A new herbivore identified in Coahuila, northern Mexico, sheds new light on the wide diversity of dinosaurs that inhabited the country and the environment in which they developed some 72 million years ago. The discovery, made by an international team of scientists from the remains of a skull and jaws collected previously, allowed the identification for the first time of a new species, Coahuilasaurus lipani, a dinosaur from the group of hadrosaurids (popularly called duckbills), which was about eight meters long, walked on four legs and lived in North America about seven million years before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that wiped the dinosaurs out.

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