The fossilized tail of a duck-billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur, was found in the municipality of General Cepeda, 15 kilometers from the site The Eagles and 20 miles of Rincon Colorado.REUTERS
The fossilized tail of a duck-billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur, was found in the municipality of General Cepeda, 15 kilometers from the site The Eagles and 20 miles of Rincon Colorado.REUTERSThe tail has 50 complete vertebrae that are united and reach five meters. According to scientists, the tail is half skeleton, which means that paleontologists have excavated almost half body of the duckbill dinosaur, whose total length is calculated 12 meters.REUTERSExcavators noted that the recovery of this skeleton was of great importance for the Mexican paleontology because it was very rare to find this type of specimens with most of the bones intact.REUTERS"For the biological study of dinosaurs this finding is important because we will have a sequence that will reveal the characteristics of the vertebrae. How they will be seen differentiating in size depending on their position in the spine," said Angel Ramirez Velasco, a paleontologist in the excavation team.REUTERSBesides the tail skeleton, hip bones of the dinosaur were also found.Mauritius Marat/INAH
A team of palaeontologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have discovered the remains of a 72 million years old tail of dinosaur in a desert in Northern Mexico.
Fifty vertebrae of the five-meter-long fossilised tail were unearthed intact. Analysing the vertebrae, scientists identified that it was hadrosaur or duckbill dinosaur's tail, according to INAH's excavation director Felisa Aguilar.
The discovery marks the first such find in Mexico.
Click on Start to view the photos from excavation. A video below shows the five-meter long tail of dinosaur at the excavation site in Mexico (Source: INAH):
