Man Discovers Massive 70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil in France
Titanosaurs, belonging to the sauropod dinosaur family, lived on Earth from the Late Jurassic Epoch to the end of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 145 million to 66 million years ago. (CREDIT: Creative Commons) In 2022, Damien Boschetto stumbled upon a remarkable find while walking his dog in the forests of Montouliers, near his home in Cruzy, a village in southern France. What he uncovered was a nearly complete skeleton of a long-necked titanosaur, estimated to be around 70 million years old. Boschetto, now 25 years old, had kept this astonishing discovery a secret until now. “The territory around Cruzy is rich in fossils of dinosaurs and other species living at the same time,” Boschetto explained. “For 28 years, Cruzy has been supplying and building one of the largest collections of dinosaur fossils from the Upper Cretaceous period in France.” Titanosaurs, belonging to the sauropod dinosaur family, lived on Earth from the Late Jurassic Epoch to the end of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 145 million to 66 million years ago. In 2022, Damien Boschetto stumbled upon …