The size of a cat .. The discovery of the remains of a 100 million-year-old dinosaur
On Thursday, paleontologists announced the discovery in southern Argentina of a small, previously unknown, armored dinosaur, a creature that likely walked upright on its hind legs and roamed the steamy surface of the Earth about 100 million years ago.
The researchers said that the dinosaur, which lived in the Cretaceous period , called "Jacapil Kanyukura" was well-protected by a row of armor in the form of bony plates along its neck and back and down to its tail.
The dinosaur was about one and a half meters long and weighed between four and seven kilograms, similar to a medium-sized domestic cat.
Its fossils were unearthed over the past decade near a dam in Patagonia, in the La Putreira excavation area in the Río Negro region.
Scientists gave a description of the dinosaur "Jackabell" in a study published in the scientific journal "Scientific Reports".
The scientists said that Jakabell represents the first discovery of its kind of an armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in South America .
The dinosaur belongs to therophoran dinosaur family, known for its bony back panels and pointed tail, as well as the tank-like Ankylosaurus covered with armor.
Paleontologist Sebastian Apistegoia and his colleagues found a portion of Jakabell's skeleton with 15 iguana-like teeth.
Jakabell resembles therophoran in its primitive form, although the latter lived well before the Cretaceous period, which raised the astonishment of scientists.
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