Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. "Shingopana had siblings in South America, whereas other African titanosaurs were only distant cousins," Gorscak added. They found that Shingopana was more closely related to titanosaurs of South America than to any of the other species currently known from Africa or elsewhere. "At that time, southern Africa dinosaurs were more closely related to those in South America, and were more widespread than we knew," Skog added.

Source: dna August 26, 2017 12:09 UTC