raathi wasn't exactly tiny at around 6 feet (2 meters) long, or about as long as a Shetland pony, but the later sauropods may have made it look like a dwarf, such as the massive 122-foot-long (37 m) Patagotitan. The newly named dinosaur is known as a sauropodomorph and a relative of the iconic long-necked sauropods like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus. On Par with the Oldest Dinosaur SpeciesĪs per research curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences who was not involved in the research, "the earliest dinosaurs were small - far from the giants we usually think of." The excavation process took five years to complete due to careful unearthing and COVID delays. The species name honors Michael Raath, who helped discover the first fossils in the area. It was named after "Mbire," the Shona dynasty that once ruled the region. The star specimen was nearly a complete skeleton when dug on the Pebbly Arkose Formation in northern Zimbabwe in 2017. A 230-million-year-old dinosaur was unearthed in Zimbabwe, and scientists identified it as the oldest definitive dinosaur species ever discovered in Africa.Īccording to LiveScience, the newly discovered dinosaur Mbiresaurus raathi was one of the oldest dino species to walk Earth.įindings of the new study answer one of the most fundamental questions of Triassic paleontology: Why did dinosaurs live in only some parts of the ancient supercontinent Pangaea?
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