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African hunter Afrovenator and giant sauropod found in Sahara
Paleontologists led by Paul Sereno uncovered two new African dinosaur species from a 1993 Sahara expedition. Afrovenator abakensis, about 7 feet tall and 27 feet long, was a fierce predator that hunted much larger prey. A second, unnamed sauropod reached about 60 feet, with a six-foot thigh bone, illustrating a predator–prey dynamic between two distinct giants in Cretaceous Africa.
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University of Chicago
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