According to CBS, the found skeleton could leave a previously unknown species of hadrosawa, which fed on plants and lived in the late Late Cretaceous period - more than 65 million years ago.

The remains were found in the area of ​​the settlement of Mukawa in Hokkaido, the channel reports referring to a report published in the journal Nature.

After the excavation, the dinosaur received the nickname Milawarya, but later scientists gave him a proper classification - Kamuysaurus japonicus.

Earlier, a detachment of the Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore discovered the remains of a representative of the dinosaur dinosaur - sauropod.

Also, professor of magmatic petrology and volcanology at Moscow State University, Pavel Plechov, in an interview with the NSN, commented on the study that volcanic eruptions caused the Permian mass extinction - the largest catastrophe in Earth's history.