{"id":12013,"date":"2024-06-03T22:56:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=12013"},"modified":"2024-06-03T22:56:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:56:20","slug":"new-dinosaur-species-discovered-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=12013","title":{"rendered":"New Dinosaur species discovered in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fossils\u00a0<\/a>found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe belong to a brand-new species of\u00a0dinosaurs\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 not previously known to science \u2013 say an international team of scientists.<\/p>\n

The new dinosaur \u2013 named\u00a0Musankwa sanyatiensis<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 was a member of the\u00a0Sauropodomorpha<\/em>, a group of bipedal, long-necked dinosaurs that were widespread during the Late Triassic period, approximately 210 million years.<\/p>\n

Weighing in at around 390 kg, the plant-eating\u00a0Musankwa sanyatiensis<\/em>\u00a0would have been one of the larger dinosaurs of its era.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDespite the limited fossil material, these bones possess unique features that distinguish them from those of other dinosaurs living at the same time,\u201d says Dr Kimberley \u2018Kimi\u2019 Chapelle, assistant professor at Stony Brook University and an honorary associate at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits.<\/p>\n

The international team consisted of scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand, the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Stony Brook University in New York and the Natural History Museum in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Natural History Museum palaeontologist, Prof. Paul Barrett who was leading the research said: \u201cWe were walking along the shoreline when I noticed these leg bones eroding out of the ground. After we excavated the fossils, we realised it was quite different from the dinosaurs you might expect to find in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis species is pretty old, dating back to the Late\u00a0Triassic\u00a0when the dinosaurs were getting larger and starting to dominate ecosystems. This is the time when they began to become more diverse and spread around the world, making it an important era to investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research detailing this significant discovery is set to be published in the journal\u00a0Acta Palaeontologica Polonica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Africa has a long history of dinosaur discovery, with the first dinosaur in the southern hemisphere found in South Africa just three years after the term \u201cdinosaur\u201d was coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842. However, most known dinosaur fossils have been found in just 10 countries, particularly in the northern hemisphere, leading to a sparse representation of African dinosaur diversity in the global fossil record.<\/p>

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