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Jun 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Paul Barrett |Jonah Choiniere |Kimberley Chapelle |Lara Sciscio |Jurassica Museum |Michel Zondo

Visitors to Lake Kariba – the world’s largest man-made lake, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe – come to enjoy the abundant wildlife, fine fishing or spectacular scenery. However, in 2017, our crew of palaeontologists came to Zimbabwe to hunt game of a different kind: dinosaurs. Many of our discoveries are still under study, but the team has just announced its first new dinosaur, dubbed Musankwa sanyatiensis. At first sight, it’s unremarkable – just a few bones from a single hind leg.

Sep 6, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Univ Lyon |Jurassica Museum |Universidad de Zaragoza |Haijun Song

Introduction The Early Ordovician represents a critical interval in the diversification of echinoderms, with the transition from low diversity, relatively cosmopolitan assemblages dominated by eocrinoids, glyptocystitid rhombiferans, and stylophorans (Furongian–mid Tremadocian), to more diverse faunas (late Tremadocian and onwards) characterised by the onset of new classes, typical of Sepkoski’s Palaeozoic Evolutionary Fauna (e.g., asteroids, crinoids, diploporitans, and ophiuroids) (Sumrall...