2,000 volunteers join a painstaking effort to restore massive skeleton of prehistoric predator
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- TOI India·1d agoScientists found a 2,865-pound predator from before dinosaurs ruled Earth
In an exciting collaboration, over 2,000 public volunteers are meticulously cleaning a colossal 1,300-kilogram fossilized skeleton of a Mastodonsaurus, an ancient amphibian that roamed the Earth 240 million years ago. Armed with specialized tools and ultraviolet light, these…
Read at TOI India → - The Hindu Science·1d ago2,000 volunteers join a painstaking effort to restore massive skeleton of prehistoric predator
Mastodonsaurus lived about 240 million years ago during the Middle Triassic period. It was an underwater ambush hunter, preying mainly on fish and smaller amphibians
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