Scientists in Morocco have uncovered fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. These two newly identified dinosaur species are members of the Abelisauridae family, which were the carnivorous counterparts
Scientists discovered fossils of two new dinosaur species in Morocco, revealing that diverse carnivorous species lived there just before the asteroid-induced extinction event 66 million years ago. Contrary to some beliefs that dinosaurs were already declining, these findings suggest they were thriving in North Africa until their abrupt end. Credit: Andrey Atuchin
Both were part of a family of primitive carnivorous dinosaurs known as abelisaurs and lived alongside the much larger abelisaur Chenanisaurus barbaricus, showing that Morocco was home to diverse dinosaur species just before a giant asteroid struck at the end of the Cretaceous, ending the age of dinosaurs.Dr Nick Longrich, from the Milner Centre for Evolution at the“It’s a shallow, tropical sea full of plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and sharks.
The last dinosaurs vanished around 66 million years ago, along with as much as 90% of all species on earth, including mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and ammonites. The pattern of the end-Cretaceous extinction and its causes have been debated for over two hundred years. A giant asteroid impact in the Yucatan peninsula has been linked to their demise, although it’s been argued that dinosaurs were already in decline.
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