Dinosaurs in North Africa were much more closely related to dinosaurs in Europe and Asia than those in southern part of the continent, according to a recent discovery of dinosaur fossil in the Sahara desert of Egypt. It is the first substantial dinosaur skeleton discovery from continental Africa for the time period of the last 30 million years of the age of the dinosaurs—which was about 96 to 66 million years ago. Though the discovery was originally made in 2013, the dinosaur was officially named on Monday (Jan.30) in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. The discovery marks a significant step in paleontological research on the continent for this particular time period. “So a lot of the rocks that might contain dinosaur fossils…were actually laid down in shallow seas.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 31, 2018 09:11 UTC