Newly Discovered Dinosaur Species Comes to Life in Animation and Fossils.
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of primitive duck-billed dinosaur in Chile, named Gonkoken nanoi, which belongs to the family Hadrosauridae. The discovery of the car-size herbivore, which lived around 72 million years ago, changes what we know about the history of its flat-nosed family. Researchers believe that G. nanoi represents an "evolutionary link" between older and younger hadrosaur species. The bones of at least three individuals were found in a large "bone bed" in the Valle del Río de Las Chinas sector of Chilean Patagonia, suggesting that G. nanoi was highly social and likely lived in sizable groups.