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Dinosaur Fossil: The Incredible Seventy-Million-Year-Old Discovery
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Dinosaur Fossil: The Incredible Seventy-Million-Year-Old Discovery

A man in France made an astonishing discovery while out walking his dog -- a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton that is approximately 70 million years old. One day, while strolling with his dog, Damien Boschetto, 25, stumbled upon an unusual sight. He had found a fossilized titanosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur known for their long necks and immense size. The news of this extraordinary find was reported by Newsweek. Titanosaurs are a subgroup of sauropods, which were massive herbivores that lived about 150 to 66 million years ago. They are some of the largest known dinosaurs and roamed every continent on Earth. The fossil discovered by Boschetto is nearly 70% complete, which is incredibly rare. Despite the significance of his discovery, Boschetto chose to keep it a secret for two yea...