72 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail Unearthed by Archaeologists in Northern Mexico
The Guardian
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July 23, 2013
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Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History says the tail is a whopping 15 feet long and resembles that of a hadrosaur or crested duckbill dinosaur. (the guardian)

Archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 72 million-year-old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico. Experts identified the creature as a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur. The five metre tail was the first ever found in Mexico and is unusually well preserved. It will be transferred to the city of General Cepeda for further investigation.

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