March 15— Turkish scientists have identified the first fossil belonging to the prehistoric times of the dinosaurs found in the country, uncovered during excavation work for a dam in Turkland’s north. The relics of the Cretaceous Era have been dated as being 70 million years old...

relics = kalıntı... (Ancak, özellikle "mukaddes emanetler" için çok kullanılır)... identify = kimliğini veya niteliğini belirlemek... to uncover = açığa çıkarmak, meydana çıkarmak... dam /DÆM/ = baraj...

Associate Professor Cemal Tunoğlu from the Geology Department of the Hacettepe University, said, “The fossils we found goes back 70 million years and belong to the type known as ‘the dinosaur of the seas’ or “the cousin of the dinosaur”. He added that the type of dinosaur would be 17.5 metres long but said pieces were destroyed in the construction work on the Beyler Dam. Those bones that had been salvaged were from the 1.5 metre-long head of the animal. He added that the fossils belonging to the same type had previously been unearthed in America, Holland, Belgium, Poland and Bulgaria.

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