New guide to Brazil dinosaurs details 54 discoveries
In his lectures, Professor Luiz Anelli, a paleontologist at the Geosciences Institute of the University of São Paulo (USP), often repeats a question: “How many of you are aware that the world’s oldest dinosaur lived here in Brazil?”Thus arousing the curiosity of kids and adults alike, the professor begins to tell a story that stretches over more than 250 million years.Everyone knows an asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs; what few do not know is that it was also an asteroid that triggered the beginning the era of these super animals, and that it all began in a region of some 40 kilometers in diameter in present-day Mato Grosso state, Central-West Brazil.These are some of the findings that readers of “The New Complete Guide to the Dinosaurs of Brazil”—Novo Guia Completo do...