Issi saaneq

Subject – Environment

Context – Issi saaneq: New dinosaur species, which roamed Greenland 214 mn years ago

Concept –

The two-legged Issi saaneq lived about 214 million years ago in what is now Greenland.
It was a medium-sized, long necked herbivore and a predecessor of the sauropods, the largest land animals ever to live.
The name of the new dinosaur pays tribute to Greenland’s Inuit language and means “coldbone”
The new findings are the first evidence of a distinct Greenlandic dinosaur species.
The dinosaur differs from all other sauropodomorphs discovered so far, but has similarities with dinosaurs found in Brazil, such as the Macrocollum and Unaysaurus, which are almost 15 million years older.