The new dinosaur, the stranger Odysseus, a member of the plant-eating duckbill dinosaur family, was found in rocks at a mine in Morocco, about 66 years before the end of the Cretaceous period.
Although some duckbill dinosaurs could reach up to 15 meters in length, experts say the Azerbaijan was relatively small, measuring a species size of three meters.
Experts were amazed at how dinosaurs ended up in Africa, which was an island continent and finally separated completely from the deep sea during the Cretaceous.
Duckbill dinosaurs evolved in North America, and later spread to South America, Asia, and Europe.
Nicholas Longrich, a senior lecturer at the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath, who led the study, described the fossil discovery as “the last thing in the world you’d expect.”
“It was completely out of place, like finding a kangaroo in Scotland. Africa was completely separated from the water – so how did they get there?” Longrish said in a statement.
After studying the teeth and jaw bones of the stranger, the experts determined that it belonged to a subfamily of the submbeosauri.
Experts say that lambiosors developed in North America before spreading over land bridges to Asia, and colonized Europe surrounded by the deep seas and then Africa.
Experts believe that duckbills, with their large tails and powerful legs, may have traveled many miles across the open sea to reach the continents, floating or floating on debris.
“Once you eliminate the impossible, no matter how impossible it may be, it must be true,” Sherlock Holmes said. “It was impossible to go to Africa. These dinosaurs have evolved for a very long time after continental currents split into continents, and we have no evidence of land bridges. Geologists say Africa was separate from the oceans. If so, the only way to get there is water. . “
But a team of researchers led by the University of Bath, along with researchers from Spain, the US, France and Morocco, believes it is the first time dinosaurs have been suggested to cross the sea.
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