Excavation

Africa’s oldest known dinosaur found in 230-million-year-old fossil

“We never expected to find such a complete and well-preserved dinosaur skeleton,” said Christopher Griffin, one of the excavation members. Source: Murphy Allen/Virginia Tech. An international team of palaeontologists have discovered and named Africa’s oldest known dinosaur that was found in Zimbabwe. The skeleton of the oldest dinosaur ever discovered in Africa, named Mbiresaurus raathi,…