North America loses its monopoly on dinosaur fossils; fourteen tail vertebrae just turned up in Spain and experts have identified it as Diplodocus
- Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils outside of North America, marking the first-ever discovery outside the area.
- For 150 years, every confirmed bone of the animal came from one place, the Morrison Formation of western US.
- But recently, Sergio Sanchez Fenollosa and his colleagues found the same anatomical signature in a set of tail vertebrae found in Teruel, Spain.
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- Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils outside of North America, marking the first-ever discovery outside the area.
- For 150 years, every confirmed bone of the animal came from one place, the Morrison Formation of western US.
- But recently, Sergio Sanchez Fenollosa and his colleagues found the same anatomical signature in a set of tail vertebrae found in Teruel, Spain.
Sources: Times of India