#NewSpecies of Small Duckbilled Dinosaur Identified in Morocco https://www.sci.news/paleontology/minqaria-bata-12691.html

A new small duckbilled #dinosaur from #Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late #Maastrichtian of North Africa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53447-9

"Duckbill #dinosaurs, or #hadrosaurids, were highly successful #herbivores that staged a major radiation in the Late #Cretaceous epoch... The presence of a hadrosaurid in Africa is perplexing, because Africa had been isolated by deep seaways since the mid-#Jurassic"