Striking Dinosaurs Found in Sahara

Two new dinosaur species have been discovered. The creatures are both sauropods, the group of giant plant eaters that includes the well known Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus. One of the newly discovered species, Jobaria tiguidensis, is a long necked, broad toothed creature that is strikingly primitive for a sauropod that appeared quite late about 130 to 140 million years ago, in dinosaur history. An adult Jobaria would have weighed about 20 tons and grown to the length of 65 feet. University of Chicago palaeontologist, Paul Sereno, whose team dug the creature out of the Sahara desert in the republic of Niger, said the fossilized bones represent a particularly fine dinosaur specimen.