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A Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Bones in Italy Rewrites the Local Prehistoric Record

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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New fossils are changing a decades-old story about the species that roamed the Mediterranean 80 million years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3

When he was little, Alessandro Kieranza's grandmother used to read him bedtime stories about dinosaurs.

0:50.2

And she would always tell him the same thing.

0:52.9

Oh, you know, but these things were not living here.

0:55.5

They were living like in America and in Asia, so not here in Italy.

1:00.5

That bedtime story first began to change for Italian kids back in the 1990s.

1:05.5

So we found plenty of dinosaur records from dinosaur fossils.

1:09.9

We started in the past decades to recover footprints,

1:14.4

but then most importantly, we started finding bones

1:18.5

and now complete skeletons of dinosaurs.

1:21.0

Keorenza, a paleontologist at the University of Vigo in Spain,

1:25.1

is part of a team that recently uncovered

1:27.3

nearly a dozen complete dinosaur skeletons, a first in Italy.

1:32.3

The discovery is documented in the journal's scientific reports, and it once again upends the bedtime story, so to speak.

1:40.3

Usually you don't find multiple complete individuals altogether, and it's something historically

1:45.8

very rare.

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