Davide Bonadonna/CNN
–
An abelisaurus, a predatory dinosaur, rests while several pterosaurs fight over the remains of a carcass.
–
Nationalgeographic.co.id—Sahara desert in the modern era is an arid part of the earth. However, history records a different thing, where the desert holds the impression of horror in prehistoric times.
A review of 100-year-old fossil evidence reveals that 100 million years ago a part of the Sahara Desert was arguably the most dangerous place on the planet.
This is evidenced by the unmatched concentration of large predatory dinosaurs in comparable modern terrestrial ecosystems.
Fossil analysis of the so-called Kem Kem layer —a rock formation in southeastern Morocco, near the Algerian border, dating from the period Cretaceous— indicates the presence of large-scale carnivorous dinosaurs, flying predatory reptiles, in the area.
“There are predators like crocodiles, all living together in the same place at the same time, it’s a river ecosystem full of very large fish,” wrote Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman.
Giuliani-Hoffman wrote to CNN in his article entitled This was the most dangerous place in our planet’s history published on May 1, 2020.
“Creatures found at the Kem Kem archaeological site roamed Earth about 95 million years before early humans appeared on this planet,” he continued.
Mike Hettwer/Boston.com
–
Fossils from the Jurassic era in the Sahara.
–
Nizar Ibrahim, a paleontologist, mentions to CNN that, “if you had a time machine and could travel to this place, you probably wouldn’t last long.”
The ancient ecosystem of Kem Kem is a truly mysterious place, ecologically, because usually in an ecosystem there will be more plant-eating animals (herbivores) than predators (carnivores).
“At Camp Camp, the predators themselves will come in a variety of sizes, with one larger predator being the dominant predator in the ecosystem,” Nizar said.
Kem Kem’s archaeological findings show that the number of predatory fossils outnumbered plant-eating dinosaurs.
Some of the predators there cohabited with plant-eating dinosaurs, such as Carcharodontosaurus, Spinosaurus, Abelisaur, and Deltadromeus, about the size of Tyrannosaurus rex.
Also Read: Found: Dinosaur’s Legs Torn In Asteroid Disaster
Also Read: This is the Flower Fossil from the Jurassic Age that shook the Theory of Evolution
Also Read: New Analysis, Spinosaurs Dive and Hunt Their Prey Underwater
Also Read: Discovery of New Jurassic Pterosaurs, Inhabiting the Ancient Continent of Gondwana
“It’s impossible for the large predators in Kem Kem to eat each other. More realistically, they feed on the abundant and very large fish that exist in the area —fish such as the coelacanth (the size of a car) and the swordfish, which can be up to 25 feet long,” he continued. .
Another paleontologist, Matthew Lamanna, said that in the Sahara ecosystem, predators generally have similarities to T-Rex but with slightly different characteristics.
“Like Carcharodontosaurus, a meat-eater that resembles a Tyrannosaurus rex in shape and size, but with a proportionally narrower head, slightly longer arms, and three fingers (not two) on each hand,” Lamanna explained to CNN.
According to Lamanna, there was also a Deltadromeus, known only from an incomplete skeleton, probably the same size as a T-rex and with the same ferocity.
An ecosystem full of predatory predators made the Sahara in its time Jurassic became the most dangerous place in the history of the development of the earth.
PROMOTED CONTENT
Featured Videos
–
/data/photo/2022/04/23/62639b231013d.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 "First Impressions of Trying Redmi 10C, Xiaomi’s “Entry Level” Phone")