New species of dinosaur that grew to four-metres long and weighed a ton discovered in Chile

Scientists have discovered the remains of a new species of duck-billed dinosaurs in Chile.

Gonkoken nanoi is the name of this previously unknown dinosaur species, which took refuge in the Chilean Patagonia and reached up to four meters long and weighed one ton.

This investigation started almost a decade ago after an expedition of the Chilean Antarctic Institute discovered fragments of yellowish bones at the bottom of a hillside in the Las Chinas River Valley, an area near the Torres del Paine (in Chilean Patagonia) that has been the epicentre of important paleontological discoveries in recent years.

Scientists not only managed to identify the new dinosaur species, but have also digitally reconstructed its skeleton.