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New Fossil Discovery Challenges Timeline of Tanzania’s Oldest Dinosaur Fossils

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A newly identified fossil species from Tanzania is challenging assumptions about the age of rocks containing some of the world’s oldest dinosaur fossils. Researchers led by the University of Bristol identified a plant-eating mammal relative called Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, which lived roughly 240 million years ago during the Triassic period. Its remains come from the same […]

First report: New bizarre, long-clawed dinosaur species discovered in China — independent.co.uk, 1d