Archaeologists discover 72 million-year-old gіаnt dinosaur tail in Mexico desert
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A team of archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 72 million-year- old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico, the country’s National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) said on Monday. Apart from being unusually well preserved, the 5 meter (16 foot) tail was the first ever found in Mexico, said Francisco Aguilar, INAH’s director in the border state of Coahuila. The team, made up of archaeologists and students from INAH and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), identified the fossil as a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur. The tail, found near the small town of General Cepeda, likely made up half the dinosaur’s length, Aguilar said. . Archaeologists found the 50 vertebrae of the tail completely intact after spending 20 days in the desert slowly lifting a sedimentary rock covering the creature’s bones. Strewn around the tail were other fossilized bones, including o...