It’s not just that dinosaur fossils are so rare; the fossil record is also patchy. Because it’s such a huge landmass, Africa probably had far more dinosaur species than North America. And in Morocco, we’ve studied lots of marine fossils. In recent months, more dinosaur fossils and more species have turned up. What our findings showAfrica’s last dinosaurs, especially its diverse predatory dinosaurs, suggest that immediately before their extinction, the dinosaurs thrived.
