Finding Africa’s last dinosaur ‘like winning the lottery’

One of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66m years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco.

Finding Africa’s last dinosaur ‘like winning the lottery’

The scientist who made the discovery likened it to winning the lottery as the new species — Chenanisaurus barbaricus — is so rare.

The dinosaur is a smaller African contemporary of the North American T rex.

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