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[strangebiology]

Duck-billed dinosaur skeleton from Gobi Desert is “virtually complete”

In the rocks and sands of the Mongolian Gobi Desert, the articulated skeleton of a hadrosaur has been waiting, intact, for tens of millions of years. The “virtually complete” fossil shows a nearly picture-perfect representation of how its bones fit together when it lived in the late Cretaceous.

First, a team member noticed a tiny protuberance of the end of a pelvis sticking out of a rock. Then the excavation team chipped away at the surrounding rocks until they uncovered a rare and precious find--the virtually complete skeleton of a brand new dinosaur.