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  • 'Miracle' Dinosaur Whose Bones Survived Being Blown Up Discovered in Italian Alps

    12/21/2018 12:19:36 PM PST · by ETL · 17 replies
    LiveScience.com ^ | December 19, 2018 | Laura Geggel, Senior Writer
    Paleontologists have excavated a mighty meat-eating, four-fingered dinosaur from an unexpected spot: the Italian Alps. The newly identified beast — dubbed Saltriovenator zanellai — lived about 200 million years ago, and it's the first-known Jurassic dinosaur discovered in Italy, the researchers said. It's also the oldest-known ceratosaurian, as well as the largest (it weighed 1 ton), predatory dinosaur known from the earliest part of the Jurassic. S. zanellai's journey to fossilization and discovery thrilled scientists, who deduced that the dinosaur's body ended up in the sea, where marine critters nibbled on its bones before it was buried. Then, it was...