Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Farlowichnus Rapidus from Footprints in Brazil

Dinosaurs used to reign on earth millions of years ago. They were present as the biggest creatures. It is said that due to the collision of asteroids, some such situations arose on the earth that they became difficult to breathe, and food and drink on the earth like trees and plants etc. also ended. Because of this, he became extinct from Earth forever. But scientists have been finding fossils of dinosaurs from time to time, which has revealed about their types.

Scientists in Brazil have found marks of a new species of dinosaurs. These have been found in the Brazilian city of Arrakara. Flaws of a new species of dinosaurs have been found here, after which the researchers have come to the conclusion that this species was not yet in the records. BBC Report According to, this story begins in the 1980s.

In the 1980s, an Italian pastor and fossilist Gaseppa Leonardo claimed that he discovered the footprints of the dinosaur. He was named Trackway. At that time no one paid much attention to this, but Leonardo kept them safe from their curiosity and after much investigation, in 1984, they handed them over to the Museum of Earth Sciences in Brazil. Where further investigation was done about them. A shocking truth came to light after intensive investigation and other species compared to dinosaurs. These were really the footprints of the dinosaurs, but belonged to such a species, which had not yet come in the record.

Researchers say that these dinosaurs had some different characteristics. His tail was quite long, the toes were thin and the soles were wide. These were agile and estimated that they were dinosaurs living in the desert. He used to live on earth about 12.5 million years ago.

The name Farlowichnus Rapidus is given to this species. However, they were small in size. The study published in 2023 states that it was an organism that would have been 2 to 3 feet high. This discovery shows how dinosaurs would have molded themselves in the changing environment of the Earth. The study has been published in Cretaceous Research.

Recently, scientists had made another discovery stating that a giant dinosaur with a long neck used to roam 1.2 million 20 million years ago in Spain. He was a dinosaur belonging to a species of Garumbatitan Morellesis. Its grocery was discovered on the site of St. Antony de la Vespa near the city of Morella.