Africa’s Sahara Was The ‘Most Dangerous Place’ On Earth
April 28, 2020
1:31 pm
Africa’s Sahara may have been ‘the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth’, a palaeontological study has concluded.
A team of international researchers found that what is today the famous desert region was home to ‘ferocious predators’ around 100 million years ago.
At this time, the Sahara was a vast river system that played host to flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters.
The team reviewed fossils from a set of Cretaceous-age rocks in south-eastern Morocco referred to by experts as the ‘Kem Kem Group’.
They found that three of the …
