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The dinosaur lived in Siberia about 100 million years ago. Source: Press Photo This discovery by Tomsk paleontologists is the first sauropod found on Russian territory. Now scientists at Tomsk ...

Fossils of a newly discovered species of Sauropods (“lizard-hipped” dinosaurs) were unearthed ... and also “Rossica” – “Russian” in Latin. As a joke paleontologists call this ...

According to the scientists, the egg belongs to a carnivorous dinosaur-troodontidae ... from the Institute of Paleontology in (the Russian Academy of Sciences RAS) Moscow with whom we have ...

An alligator snapping turtle that looks like a real-life video-game villain has become somewhat of an internet sensation after turning up in a Russian river. Anastasia Steshina was among those who ...