A new species of dinosaur has been found in Egypt, shedding light on the history of dinosaur evolution in Africa:
An admirable feat, to be sure, especially since the discovery has been made in a country where the theory of evolution is still widely misunderstood and/or rejected. Perhaps this discovery will accelerate the acceptance of the theory due to wide reporting--and perhaps not. Time will tell. Everything else aside, though, this is a fascinating discovery for science.
From the article said:A new species of dinosaur found in the Egyptian desert is shedding light on Africa's missing history of dinosaurs.
Few fossils have been unearthed from the last days of the dinosaurs, between 100 and 66 million years ago, on the continent.
Scientists say the dinosaur, which lived about 80 million years ago, is an "incredible discovery".
The giant plant-eater was the length of a school bus and weighed about the same as an elephant.
It had a long neck and bony plates embedded in its skin.
The dinosaur's fossilised remains were unearthed during an expedition by palaeontologists from Mansoura University in Egypt.
An admirable feat, to be sure, especially since the discovery has been made in a country where the theory of evolution is still widely misunderstood and/or rejected. Perhaps this discovery will accelerate the acceptance of the theory due to wide reporting--and perhaps not. Time will tell. Everything else aside, though, this is a fascinating discovery for science.