New dinosaur finds in Sweden ‘completely rewrite history’

Researchers have uncovered some of the oldest fossils of large predatory dinosaurs ever found at an old clay quarry in the town of Billesholm in Skåne, southern Sweden.

Researchers investigate a dinosaur footprint at the site in Billesholm. Photo: Uppsala universitet/TT

Four tons of fossil material has now been transported from Billesholm in northwestern Skåne to Uppsala University, bringing together a total of 8,000 individual finds made at the site over the last seven years, according to a report in the Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad newspapers.

“The fact that we had dinosaurs at the end of the Triassic period is not new, but having such large predatory dinosaurs, that’s completely unique,” paleontologist Martin Qvarnström from Uppsala University told TT newswire.

The dinosaurs in question are huge, he explained, adding that footprints indicate they could have been up to ten metres long.

“It completely rewrites history,” he said, “as now we have something more similar to what we see much later in dinosaur evolution.”

Published: 13 October 2022 10:15 CEST

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