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Scientists have identified a new species of dinosaur from parts of a skeleton found in northern Chile.
The creature’s remains were unearthed in the Atacama desert – the world’s driest – near the city of Copiapó.
Experts say the plant-eating titanosaur had a small head and long neck, and an unusually flat back.
Studies suggest the creature lived in what would then have been a lush landscape of flowering plants, ferns and palm
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