The body of a dinosaur-like creature is so well preserved that it still has flesh and bones in India, confusing researchers.
An electrician was shocked when he discovered a partially preserved creature while cleaning an abandoned subway station in Jaspur, India, Sun reported on December 15. The creature looked like a small dinosaur, but because flightless dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, scientists had difficulty identifying it.
The sample was sent to experts for analysis, including carbon dating. “It looks like a dinosaur, but we cannot say anything until we conduct all the tests,” said Dr. Parag Madhukar Dhakate, a conservationist with the Indian Forest Service.
Aaryan Kumar, a PhD student in archeology at Delhi University, said the possibility of a dinosaur skeleton being preserved intact for such a long time is unlikely.
“Flightless dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, but the specimen resembled theropods, a group of dinosaurs that included two-legged carnivores. But a dinosaur skeleton could not be found in such an intact state after millions of years without fossilizing. The only possibility is that it was chemically treated to be kept in a museum. But if that is the case, how did it get here?” , Kumar explains.
The creature resembles the dinosaurs Deinonychus, Coelophysis and Dromaeosaurus. They all belong to the group of theropod dinosaurs.
According to Dr. Dhakate, the specimen was sent to Dr. Bahadur Kotlia, a paleontologist at Kumaun University, for historical analysis. An initial hypothesis was that this could be a genetically deformed goat embryo.
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