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The first duckbill dinosaur fossil from Africa hints at how dinosaurs once crossed oceans – EurekAlert
The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds of kilometres of open water to get there.
IMAGE: Duckbill dinosaurs evolved in north America, spreading to South America, Asia, Europe, and finally Africa
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The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds of kilometres of open water to get there.
The study, published in Cretaceous Research, reports the new dinosaur, Ajnabia odysseus, from rocks in Morocco dating to the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago. Ajnabia was a member of…
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