Despite the fact that scientists regularly discover new forms of life on our planet, the past of our planet is also capable of presenting many surprises. For example, according to the journal Scientific Reports, recently Australian paleontologists have discovered on the continent a new species of huge herbivorous dinosaurs, called "Savannosaurus".
Savannosaurus (in Latin, savannasaurus) was about the height of modern giraffes, and its body length was equal to 15 meters. Interestingly enough, the recently discovered species belongs to the genus of tyrannosaurs, and the age of the find is at least 95 million years. Many researchers suggest that at that time tyrannosaurs were the dominant species of lizards on our entire planet, which is confirmed by finds from South America and Africa, dating back to about the same period.
Discovered bone fragments and an approximate view of a huge herbivorous Tyrannosaurus
Scientists also hypothesize that the dispersal of dinosaurs occurred in the period from 95 to 150 million years ago, it was at this time that global warming destroyed the natural land route of animals from South America to Australia through Antarctica, which caused in the future a rather strong modification of reptiles within one kind.
VLADIMIR KUZNETSOV