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Dec 2024
13m 34s

The Earliest Dinosaur 🦕

The Retrospectors
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A 245 million years old fossil named Nyasasaurus parringtoni was officially determined the earliest known dinosaur on 4th December, 2012; meaning dinosaurs had roamed the Earth at least 10 million years earlier than the previously believed "dawn of the dinosaurs." Unearthed in Tanzania in the 1930s and mostly ignored for decades, the fossil’s story was broug ... Show More
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