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Duckbill dinosaur discovery in Morocco – expert unpacks the mystery of how they got there

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par Nicholas R. Longrich, Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath

Why are fossils of duckbill dinosaurs, a North American family, found in North Africa?

Dinosaurs couldn’t just walk there. Sixty-six million years ago, when duckbills suddenly appear in Africa’s fossil record, the world’s land masses formed a series of islands. A seaway divided eastern and western North America; Europe was an archipelago. South America, India, Australia and Madagascar were all island continents, surrounded by ocean.

Africa was an island too – it was impossible to walk…

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