Africa’s oldest dinosaur unearthed in Zimbabwe 01.09.2022

Deutsche Welle | Sep 1, 2022 at 2:00 AM
  • A team of scientists in northern Zimbabwe say they have found the remains of an ancient sauropodomorph — a long-necked dinosaur — that roamed the earth around 230 million years ago.
  • The discovery of the newly named Mbiresaurus raathi, one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs.
  • At that time, the theory is that latitude and climate controlled the distribution of such dinosaur species, rather than continental divides that emerged later as the continents broke apart.