85 mil.-year-old dinosaur skull found in Kumamoto Pref.

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A dinosaur skull (front) dating back to about 85 million years ago has been unearthed in a mountain in the town of Mifune, Kumamoto Prefecture, the Mifune Dinosaur Museum said Oct. 13. The museum said the fossilized skull belonging to a herbivore named hadrosaurid is from the early phase of the Late Cretaceous Period and that it is probably one of the oldest of its kind in Japan. In back is a replica.

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