Czech scientists have expanded scientific knowledge about animals that lived on Earth tens of millions of years ago.

"A new species of dinosaurs was discovered that lived on the territory of modern Central and Southern Bohemia during the Upper Cretaceous period," the researcher at the Charles University in Prague told a news conference and the representative of the paleontologists Martin Mazuh.

"This is a sensational discovery in paleontology," he said.. - It was made on the basis of a study of the femur of an unknown dinosaur, found 14 years ago, near the city of Kutna Hora in Central Bohemia. In the course of long and painstaking research it was established that it was a food-eating pangolin, whose hind legs were very similar in structure to the paws of modern birds ".

The dinosaur was assigned to the group of ornithopods - the most ancient herbivorous herbivorous lizards. They lived from the Late Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous period. The age of the representative of the new "Czech species" for science, as scientists suppose, is measured at most 90 million years.

Paleontologists gave a new kind of dinosaur name Burianosaurus augustai. The exact description of it, unfortunately, only one femur can not be made.

Scientists expect that they will succeed if they find a more complete fragment of the skeleton of the primitive lizard.

The discovery of the remains of a dinosaur in the Czech Republic, according to Martin Mazuh, is of exceptional scientific interest, since in the Cretaceous the most part of the territory of the republic was under water. Its central and southern regions, as well as modern Bavaria, were an island with a specific flora and fauna. This is reported by "Czech Television".