BUENOS AIRES, April 26 — Palaeontologists from Argentina introduced the invention of a brand new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a quick runner and lived about 90 million years in the past within the Late Cretaceous interval in current day Patagonia.
The animal, named Chakisaurus nekul, was discovered within the Pueblo Blanco Natural Reserve, within the southern province of Río Negro, an space wealthy in fossils the place many mammals, turtles, and fish have been discovered together with different species of dinosaur.
It is estimated that the biggest Chakisaurus reached 2.5 or 3 meters lengthy and was 70 centimetres excessive (8 to 10 toes lengthy and 27 inches excessive).
Studies of Chakisaurus yielded new findings indicating that it was a quick runner and had its tail curved unusually downward.
Argentine palaeontologist Sebastian Rozadilla holds a fossil of the ‘Chakisaurus nekul’, an newly-discovered herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 90 million years in the past within the Patagonia area, on the Buenos Aires’ Natural Science museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 24, 2024. — eNM pic
“This new species, Chakisaurus nekul, was a bipedal herbivore that amongst its most necessary traits had a tail that, not like different dinosaurs, which was horizontal, had a downward curvature,” stated Rodrigo Álvarez, writer of the examine.
“It is one thing tremendous new for these animals. In addition, it’s identified that it was a very good runner, which was one thing it wanted as a result of it lived with a lot of predators and its solely defence was to be sooner than them.”
The dinosaur’s identify derives from Chaki, which is a phrase from the Aonikenk language, of the indigenous Tehuelche individuals, which implies “previous guanaco”, a reference to a medium-sized herbivore mammal discovered within the area. Nekul means “quick” or “agile” within the Mapudungún language, of the native Mapuche individuals.
“He had very sturdy hind limbs and a tail with an anatomy that allowed him to manoeuvre it to the edges and so be capable of steadiness throughout races,” Sebastián Rozadilla, co-author of the publication, defined to eNM.
A group of Argentine palaeontologists with the help of the National Geographic Society, made the invention initially in 2018, however lately unveiled their discovering within the revered journal Cretaceous Research. — eNM
