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Fish-Eating Dinosaur Found in Africa

Paleontologists discovered a large, 100-million-year-old dinosaur with an extremely long, narrow snout.

 

References:

Sereno, P.C., et al. 1998. A long-snouted predatory dinosaur from Africa and the evolution of spinosaurids. Science 282(Nov. 13).

 

Sources:

Angela Milner
Natural History Museum
Department of Palaeontology
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
United Kingdom

Paul C. Sereno
University of Chicago
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
1027 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 20, November 14, 1998, p. 308. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.


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