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Mukawa, Japan, -April 28: Japanese researchers stand in the Hokkaido town of Mukawa on April 27, 2017, in front of the remains of an -meter-long Hadrosaurid, dating from around 72 million years ago, they unearthed in the mountains of Hokkaido. It is the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in the country. The team involving members of Hokkaido University and a museum in the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido, hailed the findings as "one of the greatest discoveries in Japanese dinosaur research history," adding it is extremely rare for so many fossilized parts from a single dinosaur to be unearthed to enable the skeleton to be visualized. The latest discovery related to the duck-billed dinosaurs is a boon to the southern Hokkaido town that has an aging population and has been trying to revitalize through tourism and education linked to fossils finds in the area. The fossilized remains were found in a geological layer dating from the Upper Cretaceous period when the area was covered by 80 to 200 meters of seawater. The media on Thursday were shown around 190 fossilized parts of the dinosaur skeleton that have been identified and laid out in a town building. Hadrosaurids were grazers and the discovered dinosaur was likely to have lived near the coast, according to the researchers. An almost complete fossilized dinosaur skeleton of a small carnivorous theropod dinosaur was excavated in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast in 2007.