Dinosaur skeleton found by resident in Libyan Sahara

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Tripoli: A Libyan resident living near the Sahara Desert has found a skeleton thought to be the remains of a small dinosaur that lived in the Libyan desert some million years ago.

The skeleton was about the size of a palm, but it bore a strong head and visible jaws.

The resident who found the dinosaur’s skeleton -identified to be Ahmed. A- said that he knew that this was definitely nothing he had come across before.

Despite its small size, it had large teeth and a strong jaw, so I thought I got to check this out, he told the Libyan news agency.

Ahmed contacted specialists in paleontology, who told him that what he found belonged to the Congo Navon Kelly species that preceded the dinosaurs and the flying pterosaurs, some of them, were no more than ten centimeters long.

The pictures taken of the skeleton show that the dinosaur was an adult when it died due to the growth rings of its bones.

Ahmed confirmed that this experience drew his attention to the era of the dinosaurs and motivated him to study and explore more on these species. He expressed his willingness to hand over what he found to a scientific institution or university.

وكالات

طرابلس: عثر مواطن ليبيّ على بقايا هيكل عظميّ شبه مُتكامل في الصحراء الليبية، يُشير إلى ديناصور صغير.

ووَفقًا لوكالة الأنباء الليبية فإن الهيكل في حجم راحة اليد، وقد تضررت بعض أطرافه، لكن بنيته العامة ما زالت متماسكة ويتمتّع برأس قوية وفكين وأكثر ما يميزه هو ضآلة حجمه الذي لا يتجاوز 15 سنتيمترًا.

وقال المواطن الذي عثر على الهيكل: إنه عثر عليه ظاهرًا بفعل عوامل التعرية، ولفت نظره حجم الرأس، ما جعله يلتقط الهيكل الذي تبيّن أنّه يُشبه الديناصورات الكبيرة من حيث الشكل رغم صغر حجمه، فهو يتمتع بأسنان كبيرة وفك قوي مقارنة بحجمه.