New dinosaur species discovered in Lebanon

New dinosaur species discovered in Lebanon

Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of dinosaur that lived in what is today Lebanon an estimated 95 million years ago. The remains of the creature, which are said to be very well preserved, were uncovered in a limestone quarry over fifteen years ago, according to the study published in the journal Scientific Reports last week. The species of the pterosaur, which was a type of large flying reptilian that is believed to have been the first vertebrate to fly, apparently lived in and around the Tethys Sea, a tropical ocean that separated the ancient land continents of Laurasia and Gondwana throughout the Mesozoic Era between 251 to 65.5 million years ago. This ocean covered what is now the [“¦]