Do you know who lived in your city long before you? NewsNN editors asked a paleontologist who lived on the territory of the modern Nizhny Novgorod region and found out that they were definitely not dinosaurs "Dinosaurs are land animals. In their heyday there was a sea in the Nizhny Novgorod region, so they simply had nowhere to live. Unless we can have species that lived in the coastal area," said paleontologist Ilya Shomov in an interview with the publication. According to him, before people lived there lemnites, similar to modern squids, plesiosaurs with fins instead of paws, ichthyosaurs with huge eyes and sharks with bony spines on their backs. In general, it is good that it was about 145-200 million years ago.

Do you know who lived in your city long before you? NewsNN editors asked a paleontologist who lived on the territory of the modern Nizhny Novgorod region and found out that they were definitely not dinosaurs "Dinosaurs are land animals. In their heyday there was a sea in the Nizhny Novgorod region, so they simply had nowhere to live. Unless we can have species that lived in the coastal area," said paleontologist Ilya Shomov in an interview with the publication. According to him, before people lived there lemnites, similar to modern squids, plesiosaurs with fins instead of paws, ichthyosaurs with huge eyes and sharks with bony spines on their backs. In general, it is good that it was about 145-200 million years ago.