85 million-year-old dinosaur skull found

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TOKYO (Reuters) - An 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull has been found in southwestern Japan, one of the oldest discoveries of its kind in the country, the Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.


The fossilized skull, belonging to a herbivore called hadrosaurid, was unearthed on a mountain in the town of Mifune in Kumamoto prefecture, Kyodo said, quoting an official of the Mifune Dinosaur Museum.



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[senob44]

Cool! Must be a hotbed of fossil activity if the town it was found in has its own dinosaur museum.

 

[L3ggy]

Must be from the Jurassic period.

 

[Becks...poamr]

I think it's amazing (if I read the story right) that this is the first head they've found in the area...but other body parts elsewhere? :dunno: