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Issisaaneq: New dinosaur species, which roamed Greenland 214 mn years ago

·         The two-legged Issisaaneq lived regarding 214 million years past in whats currently greenland.

·         It was a medium-sized, long necked herbivore and a predecessor of the sauropods, the biggest land animals ever to measure.

·         The name of the new dinosaur pays tribute to Greenland’s inuit language and means that “coldbone”

·         The new findings are the 1st proof of a definite Greenlandic dinosaur species.

·         The dinosaur differs from all different sauropodomorphs discovered thus far, however is similar with dinosaurs found in Brazil, like the Macrocollum and Unaysaurus, that are virtually fifteen million years older.