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N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences: New Dino, 'Iani,' Was Face of a Changing Planet
June 13, 2023
RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 13 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences issued the following news release:

A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations.

The specimen, named Iani smithi after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of change, was an early ornithopod, a group of dinosaurs that ultimately gave rise to . . .

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