2023-08-14 16:27:51
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Most likely these are the remains of belemnites
Moscow paleontologists intend to put an end to the dispute about who owns the unusual remains found during the construction of a new residential complex in the metropolitan area of Mitino – dinosaurs or mammoths. According to them, the fossils may be parts of the skeletons of ancient marine animals that lived 65 million years ago.
As it became known to “MK”, on Monday morning, an excavator at a construction site on Muravskaya Street dug up several sharp objects, each of which was at least 10 cm in length. In outline, they resemble teeth or even fangs, and it occurred to the workers that they had stumbled upon a sensation. The discovery was immediately reported to the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Scientists in the near future will thoroughly study the remains, but now experts have suggested with a high degree of probability that the fossils belong to extinct marine animals belemnites. Pointed teeth that resemble arrowheads are believed by experts to be the tail parts of the elongated bodies of marine predators. Belemnites resembled giant squids – they had a torpedo-shaped body, reaching a length of three meters.
On the territory of the capital region, the remains of belemnites, by the way, come across quite often. Paleontologists call their tail part the most recognizable. Moreover, she even has a special “folk” name – “damn finger”.
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