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Scientists unearth megaraptors, feathered dinosaur fossils in Chile's Patagonia

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Scientists in Chile's Patagonia region are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica, including remains of megaraptors that would have dominated the area's food chain before their mass extinction.

Fossils of megaraptors, a carnivorous dinosaur that inhabited parts of South America during the Cretaceous period some 70 million years ago, were found in sizes up to 10 metres long, according to the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

Marcelo Leppe, director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) told Reuters the findings also help to understand South America’s connection to New Zealand and Australia.

The remains, recovered from Chile's far south Rio de las Chinas Valley in the Magallanes Basin between 2016 and 2020, also include some unusual remains of Unenlagia, velociraptor-like dinosaurs which likely lived covered in feathers.

The specimens, according to University of Chile researcher Jared Amudeo, had some characteristics not present in Argentine or Brazilian counterparts.

The studies also shed more light on the conditions of the asteroid impact on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula that may have triggered the dinosaurs' extinction some 65 million years ago.

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