Around 85 million years ago, North America was halved by 1,000 mi of ocean, which connected the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Sea. The continent was divided into two landmasses: Laramidia and Appalachia. Appalachia stretched from around Alabama up into Canada.
Traversing Appalachia was Eotrachodon orientalis, a new duck-billed dinosaur described by researchers in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Found in marine sediment by a team of amateur fossil hunters in Alabama’s Montgomery County, the skeleton is roughly 40…
New Duck-Billed Dino Described
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