Africa’s oldest dinosaur found

Scientists in Zimbabwe have discovered the bones of the oldest dinosaur ever found in Africa. Mbiresaurus raathi, which lived more than 230 million years ago, was first uncovered on an expedition to the Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe in 2017. Christopher Griffin, who led the expedition, said he found a femur (thigh bone) sticking out of the ground, so he dug around it and noticed a hip bone. “I kept digging, got more of the team to help out, and we recovered nearly the entire skeleton,” Griffin said. The skeleton is almost complete and is only missing part of its skull and some of one hand. This has allowed scientists to learn about the dinosaur and the life it lived beside an ancient river. The dinosaur was a type of sauropodomorph,…

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