New dinosaur species found

Thursday 13 October 1994 23:02 BST
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CHICAGO - Two new dinosaur species have been discovered in the Sahara, researchers announced yesterday. The discovery sheds new light on the kinds of dinosaurs that roamed the globe before the continents drifted apart, and indicates present-day Africa was connected to Europe by a land bridge at Gibraltar longer than had been suspected, they said. 'It was the most dramatic experience in our lives,' said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. Reuter

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