Brazilian researchers and government officials welcome the return of a prized 110-million-year-old dinosaur fossil. The specimen, newly returned to Brazil from Germany, sparked an outcry in 2020 after palaeontologists published a now-retracted paper on it
From left: Leonardo Troiano, an archaeologist at the Institute of National Historic and Artistic Heritage in Brasilia; Hermínio de Araújo Júnior, president of the Brazilian Society of Palaeontology, who is based in Rio de Janeiro; Luciana Santos, minister of science, technology and innovation; Juan Carlos Cisneros, a palaeontologist at the Federal University of Piauí in Teresina; and Aline Ghilardi, a palaeontologist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal.
This celebratory image shows Brazilian researchers and government officials gathered around a prized fossil of the dinosaur. The fossil, newly returned to Brazil from Germany, sparked an outcry in late 2020 after palaeontologists published a now-retracted paperabout it. The 110-million-year-old specimen represents the first non-avian dinosaur to be found in South America with structures that seem to be precursors to feathers.
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