Mexico’s 72-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail: A Desert Puzzle
A team of archaeologists has discovered the fossil remains of a 72-million-year-old tail in a cave in northern Mexico, it has been announced. The “unique thick wall” of the tail, which was the first found in Mexico, said Francisco Aguilar, director of the country’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. The team, made up of archaeologists and students from INAH and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, identified the fossil as a hadrosaurid, or duck-billed dinosaur. The “unique thick wall” of the tail was the first found in Mexico. It is 72 million years old. The tail, found near…
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