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The Last African Dinosaur was discovered in Morocco where such a dinosaur was never discovered previously so the rock hunters are all aquiver over this. (Science Daily: 'Last African dinosaur' discovered in Moroccan mine)
This is a Chenanisaurus barbaricus.
Credit: Dr Nick Longrich, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
Ed: he's a beauty
It seems he's a relative of T. rex but imagine T. rex getting bent when someone wants to invite them to parties. "I'll go extinct before I'll hang out with those little no-nose wimps."
He was right since the last dinosaur extinction was only a short time away.
One of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the fossil, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, suggests that following the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana in the middle of the Cretaceous period, a distinct dinosaur fauna evolved in Africa.
- SD
Ed: you can't imagine how that makes my cockles vibrate
I'm sure they do; I'm sure they do, mate.
Nope, T. rex did not meet C. barbaricus and, yep, they did go extinct right after that.
"We have virtually no dinosaur fossils from this time period in Morocco -- it may even be the first dinosaur named from the end-Cretaceous in Africa. It's also one of the last dinosaurs in Africa before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
"It's an exciting find because it shows just how different the fauna was in the Southern hemisphere at this time."
- SD
You're feeling that, right?
Ed: in my soul
I thought you might.
The Last African Dinosaur was discovered in Morocco where such a dinosaur was never discovered previously so the rock hunters are all aquiver over this. (Science Daily: 'Last African dinosaur' discovered in Moroccan mine)
This is a Chenanisaurus barbaricus.
Credit: Dr Nick Longrich, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
Ed: he's a beauty
It seems he's a relative of T. rex but imagine T. rex getting bent when someone wants to invite them to parties. "I'll go extinct before I'll hang out with those little no-nose wimps."
He was right since the last dinosaur extinction was only a short time away.
One of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the fossil, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, suggests that following the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana in the middle of the Cretaceous period, a distinct dinosaur fauna evolved in Africa.
- The new species, Chenanisaurus barbaricus, was of one of the last dinosaurs on Earth and among those species wiped out when an asteroid hit 66 million years ago
- It is the smaller African contemporary of the North American T. rex
- Fossil is evidence of distinct fauna in southern hemisphere at this time
- SD
Ed: you can't imagine how that makes my cockles vibrate
I'm sure they do; I'm sure they do, mate.
Nope, T. rex did not meet C. barbaricus and, yep, they did go extinct right after that.
"We have virtually no dinosaur fossils from this time period in Morocco -- it may even be the first dinosaur named from the end-Cretaceous in Africa. It's also one of the last dinosaurs in Africa before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
"It's an exciting find because it shows just how different the fauna was in the Southern hemisphere at this time."
- SD
You're feeling that, right?
Ed: in my soul
I thought you might.
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