180 million-year-old dinosaur fossil found

AN international team of palaeontologists has found a dinosaur fossil dating back more than 180 million years and believed to be one of the oldest discovered, the Moroccan government said.

The 30ft-long dinosaur, resembling a rhinoceros with a long neck and tail, was discovered in the High Atlas mountain village of Tazouda, said Morocco’s minister for Energy and Mines Mohammed Boutaleb.

He said the fossil was the “oldest one known in the world”.