New dinosaur species

FUKUI, Japan - Fossils of a new dinosaur species, named Fukuititan nipponensis, are placed at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture. The museum announced June 8, 2010, the fossils unearthed since 2007 from a Lower Cretaceous Period (about 120 million years ago) layer in Katsuyama are of a new sauropod species of about 10 meters long.

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