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Italy Finds Biggest Evidence of Carnivorous Dinosaurs

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Italian expert on paleontology Revealed the findings that Theสล็อต wallet เครดิตฟรี largest and oldest carnivorous dinosaurs ever to be discovered comes from the northern part of present-day Lombardy.

Italian researchers recently published results of research on fossils discovered years ago in a large marble quarry in the Italian Alps. It is in the scientific journal PerrJ.

The scientist said This dinosaur lived 200 million years ago, and its skeleton is the first ever Jurassic fossil found in Italy.

Scientists named this dinosaur Saltriovenator zanellai in honor of Angelo Zanella, an amateur explorer who accidentally digs up a bone. And for the area where dinosaur bones were found as well

Angelo Zanella said he will never forget the day the bones were found in large boulders in a marble quarry near Saltrio in the summer of 1957. 1996 He communicated this discovery to the Natural History Museum in Milan. Which has been exploring the area further and has found more fossils as well.

Cristiano dal Sasso of the Natural History Museum The head of the study said the fossils of this dinosaur. It is the first fossil to be found in Lombardy. And is the oldest and largest dinosaur remains from the late Jurassic period as well.

Dal Sasso said the researchers found 132 bones and it wasn't easy to extract them from hard rocks. The team worked in a systematic manner, separating parts to rearrange and position the bones. And that the discovery is very exciting.

Experts in paleontology have identified dinosaurs as This carnivore was about 7.5 meters (24.6 feet) long. The skull was 80 centimeters (31.4 inches) and weighed at least a ton. It has very sharp teeth. The lower leg has four fingers. Of which three fingers have powerful claws

Dal Sasso and his team said, This dinosaur was a great assassin. And it's one of the hunters at the top of the food chain. They are believed to have hunted large, herbivorous dinosaurs for their food.

The Saltriovenator zanellai fossil is the second set of skeletons found in Italy. The first to be discovered is the fossilized remains of a tiny dinosaur Scipionyx, unearthed in southern Italy in 1980.