Rare dinosaur discovery in EGYPT could signal more finds

AP ^ | 02/06/2018 | Staff

[Red Badger]

MANSOURA, Egypt (AP) — A skeleton has been unearthed in Egypt’s Western Desert, whose ancient sands have long helped preserve remains, but unlike most finds this one isn’t a mummy — it’s a dinosaur.

Researchers from Mansoura University in the country’s Nile Delta discovered the new species of long-necked herbivore, which is around the size of a city bus, and it could be just the tip of the sand dune for other desert dinosaur discoveries.

“As in any ecosystem, if we went to the jungle we’ll find a lion and a giraffe. So we found the giraffe, where’s the lion?” said Hesham Sallam, leader of the excavation team and head of the university’s Center for Vertebrate Paleontology.

Sallam, along with four Egyptian and five American researchers, authored an article in the journal “Nature Ecology & Evolution” published Jan. 29 announcing the discovery.

Experts say the find is a landmark one that could shed light on a particularly obscure period of history for the African continent, roughly the 30 million years before dinosaurs went extinct, between 70 and 80 million years ago.

Named “Mansourasaurus Shahinae” after the team’s university and for one of the paleontology department’s founders, the find is the only dinosaur from that period to have been discovered in Africa, and it may even be an undiscovered genus.

In the article the authors say the team’s findings “counter hypotheses that dinosaur faunas of the African mainland were completely isolated” during the late Mesozoic period. That is, previous theories were that Africa’s dinosaurs during that time existed as if on an island and developed independently from their northern cousins.

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[Red Badger]

Egyptian Dinosaur PinGGG!.................

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

• Scientists discover 'the Holy Grail of dinosaurs' in Africa

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Oh somebody please photoshop a sphinx-like head pieco on a dinosaur.

[Darksheare]

It’s not my fault.
They were supposed to be better hidden.

[Red Badger]

Dang Glowbull Warming!...................

[Red Badger]

[sauropod]

Thanks for posting this.

[Red Badger]

I wonder......did the dinosaurs 'Walk like an Egyptian'?...................

[sauropod]

I hear the mummy’s are keeping it under wraps.

... ducking

[Red Badger]

Tut,Tut...................

[Darksheare]

It consumed them like Pringles!

[publius911]

Rare dinosaur discovery in EGYPT could signal more finds

The Vertebrate Paleontologists better have armed guards protecting the stuff.

When are the Egyptian and other koranimals going to start stealing the artifacts, or the koranimal ISIS/ISIL killer two legged animals blowing them up?

Let me get some popcorn and make myself comfortable...

[sauropod]

Let my people go, baby!

[Red Badger]

IIRC, the Egyptian army provides security over antiquities digs.................

[Steely Tom]

If you see one, there's a lot more you can't see.

[Red Badger]

I wonder if there’s a lot of fossils under the sands.......................

[publius911]

Oh somebody please photoshop a sphinx-like head piece on a dinosaur.

The koranimal egyptians have taken the lead from Russian "Science."

Their science consists ALWAYS of bodies in the background using microscopes and other instruments without the slightest clue of how to use them.

They stopped posting videos because the morons realized that microscopes and other science instruments with "lots of dials" and switches are not operated like video games...

[publius911]

IIRC, the Egyptian army provides security over antiquities digs.................

A distinction without a difference!

Historically, they are the most efficient and successful robbers of all...

[Ezekiel]

A skeleton has been unearthed in Egypt’s Western Desert, whose ancient sands have long helped preserve remains, but unlike most finds this one isn’t a mummy — it’s a dinosaur.

Egypt was known as the "house of bondage". Ergo Egypt's "western desert" = Edom (Galut Edom).

dinosaur:

one that is impractically large, out-of-date, or obsolete

Obsolete bones, discovered in Egypt no less. 'Everyone knows' that dinosaurs have gone extinct.

History, revisited:

Genesis 50

24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you [pakod yifkod], and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you [pakod yifkod], and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

"Now you're not going to find them easy to follow. They're not using normal procedures. They're using some kind of kode."

"Did you ever hear enthusiasm like that in all your life?! They've even got the ---- gravediggers in there!" ·