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

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A dinosaur skull dating back 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.

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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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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. (Kyodo)

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

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A dinosaur skull dating back 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. (Kyodo)

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Replica of Japan's largest dinosaur fossil

A life-size replica of a skeleton of an 8-meter-long, 4-meter-tall plant-eating Hadrosaurid is unveiled to the press on April 17, 2019, in Mukawa, Hokkaido. It was created based on the largest-ever discovered dinosaur fossil in Japan, excavated from a 72-million-year-old geological layer in the northern Japan town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica of Japan's largest dinosaur fossil

A life-size replica of a skeleton of an 8-meter-long, 4-meter-tall plant-eating Hadrosaurid is unveiled to the press on April 17, 2019, in Mukawa, Hokkaido. It was created based on the largest-ever discovered dinosaur fossil in Japan, excavated from a 72-million-year-old geological layer in the northern Japan town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica of Japan's largest dinosaur fossil

A life-size replica of a skeleton of an 8-meter-long, 4-meter-tall plant-eating Hadrosaurid is unveiled to the press on April 17, 2019, in Mukawa, Hokkaido. It was created based on the largest-ever discovered dinosaur fossil in Japan, excavated from a 72-million-year-old geological layer in the northern Japan town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

Yoshiyuki Horita, a local fossil collector who found a fossilized tail bone of a Hadrosaurid in 2003, speaks in the town of Mukawa on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on April 27, 2017, after the fossilized remains, dating from around 72 million years ago, were found in the Hokkaido mountains, making it the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

The remains of an 8-meter-long Hadrosaurid, dating from around 72 million years ago and unearthed in the mountains of Hokkaido by Japanese researchers, are shown in the Hokkaido town of Mukawa on April 27, 2017. It is the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

The remains of an 8-meter-long Hadrosaurid, dating from around 72 million years ago and unearthed in the mountains of Hokkaido by Japanese researchers, are shown in the Hokkaido town of Mukawa on April 27, 2017. It is the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

Japanese researchers stand in the Hokkaido town of Mukawa on April 27, 2017, in front of the remains of an 8-meter-long Hadrosaurid, dating from around 72 million years ago, they unearthed in the mountains of Hokkaido. It is the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo