A recent discovery of dinosaur fossil in the Sahara desert of Egypt, have revealed that Dinosaurs in North Africa were more closely related to dinosaurs in Europe and Asia than those in southern part of the continent. It was named Mansourasaurus after the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology (MUVP) initiative, a wing at the Department of Geology at Mansoura University in Mansoura, Egypt, that oversaw the research under Dr Hesham Sallam. The findings point out that at least some dinosaurs in Africa, right before dinosaurs went extinct, had close relatives on other continents, particularly Europe and Asia. “Here we describe a new titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur, Mansourasaurus shahinae gen. et sp. These findings counter hypotheses that dinosaur faunas of the African mainland were completely isolated during the post-Cenomanian Cretaceous, the paper says.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 31, 2018 12:33 UTC