Issi saaneq

  • Recently, a new genus and species of Plateosaurus dinosaur has been identified from two fossilized skulls found in Jameson Land, a peninsula in eastern Greenland. It has been named Issi saaneq.
  • The two-legged Issi saaneq lived about 214 million years ago in what is now Greenland.
  • It was a medium-sized, long necked herbivore and a predecessor of the sauropods, the largest land animals ever to live.
  • The name of the new dinosaur pays tribute to Greenland’s Inuit language and means “coldbone”.
  • The new findings are the first evidence of a distinct Greenlandic dinosaur ....
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