A 240-million-year-old new species unearthed in Tanzania
An international team led by the University of Bristol described a new prehistoric species — Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda — from fossils collected in Tanzania 60 years ago and only now fully studied. The discovery links Tanzanian and South American fossil rocks as the same age, sharpening the timeline of the very first dinosaurs.
The upbeat factorA mystery in a museum drawer, solved six decades later.