Dinosaur discovery in desert

Two previously-unknown prehistoric creatures have been discovered by British scientists during a month-long expedition in the Sahara desert.

Two previously-unknown prehistoric creatures have been discovered by British scientists during a month-long expedition in the Sahara desert.

A sauropod, a species of giant plant-eating dinosaur, and a new type of pterosaur, which would both have lived almost 100 million years ago, were found.

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