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    • Africa’s Oldest Dinosaur Found in Zimbabwe

    By on September 1, 2022

    Harare, Zimbabwe: Scientists have unearthed Africa’s oldest dinosaur, which is more than 230 million years old, in Zimbabwe. The Mbiresaurus raathi stood at one metre tall, ran on two legs and had a long neck and jagged teeth.

    Scientists said it was a species of sauropodomorph, a relative of the sauropod, the long-necked dinosaur that walked on four legs, BBC news reported. The skeleton was discovered during two expeditions, in 2017 and 2019, to Mbire in the Zambezi Valley.

    The find is expected to shed more light on evolution and migration of early dinosaurs, back when the world was one huge continent and Zimbabwe was at the same latitude as those countries. The near-complete skeleton of the Mbiresaurus raathi is stored in a room in a museum in Zimbabwe’s southern city of Bulawayo.

    It is thought to date to the Carnian stage of the Triassic period, when today’s Zimbabwe was part of the massive supercontinent Pangaea. Dinosaurs were believed to be well adapted to the high latitudes where today’s Zimbabwe is located, which were humid and had ample vegetation.

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