{"id":720788,"date":"2026-07-31T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720788\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:16:12","slug":"new-dinosaur-discovered-in-zimbabwe-reveals-diversity-of-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720788\/","title":{"rendered":"New dinosaur discovered in Zimbabwe reveals diversity of region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The late Triassic was when dinosaurs were beginning to spread around the planet before they became the dominant animals on Earth during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While sites in Europe and North America have been studied extensively, fossils from Africa have not had as much attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time Africa would have been part of a supercontinent called Gondwana, that also included present-day South America, India, Australia, and Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Musango was a sauropodomorph, an early relative of dinosaurs such as Diplodocus that walked on two legs rather than four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A study of the fossils of the Musango, which include bones from the spine, arms and feet, reveal a dinosaur which was almost fully grown when it died. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Triassic was when dinosaurs were beginning to spread around the planet before they became the dominant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}