Last year, a fossil footprint of a dinosaur about 125 million years ago found in Sichuan Province, China, was given the scientific name "Nobita" after "Nobita" that appears in the manga "Doraemon", and from 14th Kawasaki City. The replica will be published at.
Footprint fossils were found in the Early Cretaceous strata in Sichuan Province, China by a research group such as Associate Professor Shin Rieter of China Geological University last July, and are the footprints of a new kind of carnivorous dinosaur due to the characteristics of finger shapes. I reported.
Associate Professor Shin has been a big fan of Fujiko F. Fujio's masterpiece "Doraemon" since he was a child, so he gave the discovered fossil footprints the scientific name "Eubrontes Nobitai" after "Nobita". I did.
From the size of the footprints, it is estimated that the dinosaur was about 4 meters long and was walking at about 4 km / h.
Replicas of "Nobitai" will be presented to two facilities in Japan, of which the "Fujiko F Fujio Museum" in Kawasaki City will be open to the public from the 14th.
Makoto Manabe, Deputy Director of the National Museum of Nature and Science, who is familiar with dinosaurs, said, "I'm surprised that the name was named after Doraemon, and Nobita-kun may be happy. I want you to think about the appearance of the dinosaur itself. "
Fujiko F. Fujio's president, Kazuhiko Akatsu, said, "Mr. Fujiko, who had a strong passion for dinosaurs, should have been pleased, and may have come up with a new story after seeing the fossils. Children who saw the fossil replicas. I hope that a new dinosaur doctor will be born from the inside. "