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Paleontologists from Tomsk and St. Petersburg state Universities have discovered a dinosaur previously unknown to science.
The remains of a giant dinosaur were discovered by Russian scientists in Kemerovo region. It is reported that such prehistoric monsters lived in Siberia about 120 million years ago. Animal got name of sibirotitan (Sibirotitan astrosacralis) in honor of the place finding his petrified bones.
Experts say that they discovered a new species of dinosaur refers to titanosaurs, that is, four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs that lived in the Upper Cretaceous era in the territory modern Eurasia, Africa and South America. Representatives of this families were the largest creatures ever inhabited The earth. In Russia, at the moment, only two types of such lizards: tenggrisaur, whose first fossils studied in the 1990s, and the newly discovered Siberian Titan. Thus, the last find of domestic paleontologists is very important for world science.
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The herbivorous sibirotitans, like other titanosaurs, survived thanks to the laying of a huge number of eggs, rapid growth young, and also, of course, its gigantic dimensions. Them the length reached about 12 meters, and they weighed about 10 tons. The fossils of most titanosaurs are found in Argentina, however in prehistoric Siberia, it turns out, at that time there were similar conditions for life and prosperity of the titanosaurs.
Sibirotitan, however, was not as large as his Argentine relatives, some of which may be reached 40 meters, and weight – 110 tons. He had an elongated neck and long tail and would look very modest against the background of a number of other titanosaurs. Nevertheless, its dimensions were still much more attractive, than any predators, so he was attacked very much infrequently.
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Found minerals were placed in Tomsk State university. In the future, Russian researchers intend to continue excavations in the Kemerovo region in order to search for new species of reptiles or even discovering something new, yet unknown.
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