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A new kind of dinosaur has been unearthed in Japan, and it's the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in the country.
The dinosaur is a completely new genus and species of the plant-eating hadrosaur, which roamed the Earth in the late Cretaceous period, more than 65 million years ago.
A fossilized skeleton of Kamuysaurus japonicus was first discovered in the Hobetsu district of Mukawa Town, Hokkaido, in 2013.
Ensuing excavations found a nearly complete skeleton (above), currently the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Japan.
Hokkaido UniversityThe dinosaur was nicknamed Milawaryu, after the excavation site, but scientists later gave it a proper classification, Kamuysaurus japonicus, meaning the deity of Japanese dinosaurs.