Word: pietraroia
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...Pietraroia limestone beds near Naples, Italy, are celebrated for the exquisite fossils they've yielded up since the early 1800s--gorgeously preserved specimens of prehistoric fish and a few birds. No dinosaurs, though. While the rocks date back some 110 million years, smack in the middle of the terrible lizards' reign, not a single dinosaur bone had ever been found there. As far as amateur paleontologist Giovanni Todesco knew, that dismal record was still intact even after he unearthed a 9-in.-long specimen about a decade ago. The nearly complete skeleton, missing only its tail and the lower part...
...Park. As he viewed its distinctly birdlike velociraptors, it suddenly dawned on Todesco that he'd better get a second opinion. Sure enough, when he showed his little critter to experts at a paleontology museum, it turned out that he had not only the first dinosaur ever found in Pietraroia but the first found anywhere in Italy...
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