Remains of new species of duck-billed dinosaur found in Chile ScienceAdvances
The discovery demonstrated that Chilean Patagonia served as a refuge for very ancient species of hadrosaurs, a type of duck-billed dinosaur common in North America, Asia and Europe during the Cretaceous period, from 145 to 66 million years ago.
Their presence in the remote southern lands surprised scientists, who will have to"understand how their ancestors got there," Vargas said. Gonkoken nanoi, the fifth species of dinosaur discovered in Chile, was actually found in 2013, kicking off a decade-long investigation. The name Gonkoken comes from the Tehuelche language, the first inhabitants of the region, and means"similar to a wild duck or a swan."Jhonatan Alarcón-Muñoz et al, Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile,
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