Fossil of carnivorous dinosaur found in Japan

KUJI, Japan - Takato Sasaki, a 13-year-old junior high school student from Aomori Prefecture, holds a fossil in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture on March 29, 2013. The fossil found in Kuji in May 2012 by Sasaki has been confirmed as a toe bone of a Coelurosauria, a carnivorous dinosaur living in the latter part of the Cretaceous period around 85 million years ago, a researcher said the same day.

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