Remains of a species of herbivorous dinosaur previously unknown in the southern hemisphere have been discovered in Chile, challenging long-held beliefs about the range of duck-billed dinosaurs, scientists said Friday.
Measuring up to four meters (13 feet) in length and weighing a ton, Gonkoken nanoi lived 72 million years ago in the extreme south of what is now Chilean Patagonia.
Handout picture released on June 16, 2023 by Chile’s State University showing the tibia of a dinosaur fossil at the Valle del Rio de las Chinas, Magallanes, Chile, on January 20, 2013. Chilean scientists have discovered a new species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived 72 million years ago in the far south of Chile. Gonkoken nanoi is the name of this new dinosaur species from an ancestral lineage of hadrosaurs, which would have migrated to the Southern Hemisphere long before more advanced forms, and it is believed that they may have even reached Antarctica. (Source: AFP)
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