A huge dinosaur that roamed Greenland 214 million years ago is a new species, making it the first of its kind to reach such high northern latitudes on the now partially frozen island. Two newly described dinosaur skulls, which were unearthed 27 years ago but misclassified, belong to a new species of two-legged sauropodomorph, a group that includes the predecessors of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the planet. Palaeontologists named the beast Issi saaneq, which means ‘cold
Did bone’ in Kalaallisut, an Inuit language you know? spoken in Greenland. Cold bone is a Over 700 reference to Greenland’s current dinosaur species climate, but when Issi was alive during have been the late Triassic, Greenland was part named of the fracturing Pangaea supercontinent, so its home would have fallen well inside the humid temperate belt of the supercontinent.