«A blast from the past»

Arharinsky district of the Amur region is widely known among Russian and foreign paleontologists* due to the discovery of numerous dinosaur remains* near the village of Kundur in 1990. In 2001, a complete skeleton of a hadrosaur named "Vanyusha" was extracted* in Kundur (Fig. 9). This is the first discovery of a complete dinosaur skeleton in Russia. This hadrosaur was distinguished* from its relatives by a giant crest on its head in the form of a hood and an unusually long neck, which gave the dinosaur the name olorotitan arharinsky (Fig. 10).