Eleven dinosaurs were found at Villaggio del Pescatore, a seaside town in Italy near Trieste, challenging former beliefs about what was once believed to be a ‘dwarf dinosaur’
that lived 80 million years ago and could reach up to five metres in length.were a part of, were herbivores and are “colloquially known as the duck-billed dinosaurs.” This is not the first time that dinosaurs were found at Villaggio del Pescatore – that also happened back in the 1980s – but because the location is a difficult one to work with, requiring heavy machinery to remove the fossils and then acid baths to dissolve the rock from the bones, progress has been slow.
“Bruno is the biggest and oldest of the group, and the most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Italy,” says Fanti. “We knew there were dinosaurs at the site after the discovery of Antonio, but up until now nobody actually checked to see how many. What we have now are multiple bones belonging to the same herd.”
“There is still an additional skeleton waiting in the site to be dug up, Zdravko, which may be potentially even bigger than Antonio and looks sub-complete,” lead author Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, a paleontologist at the University of Vigo in Spain, tellsin an email. “We also have many other animals preserved in the site, from pterosaurs, to crustaceans, to crocodiles, to fish and plants, so we hope some kind of different dinosaur, maybe a complete theropod, could be soon revealed from the site.
“This is super cool as we can figure out the kind of environment the dinosaurs lived and died in,” Fanti tells the. “During that period, the area was very close to the shoreline in a tropical, warm and humid environment capable of feeding herds of dinosaurs.” Villaggio del Pescatore is a protected area which experts hope eventually to open to the public. Some of the fossils found so far are on display at the
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