CAIRO — An Egyptian analysis staff introduced in early February the discovery of the footprints of carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs within the southern Japanese Desert, which date again greater than 70 million years.
President of the New Valley College Abdel Aziz Tantawi stated in a press statement Feb. 2, “The scientific discovery, the primary of its variety in Egypt, was the results of joint efforts between the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at Cairo College and the Vertebrate Paleontology Heart at New Valley College. [The discovery] is obvious proof of the presence of large carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs within the Japanese Desert of Egypt greater than 70 million years in the past.”
In keeping with a report revealed Feb. 8 by Sky Information Arabia, there had been an assumption that dinosaurs roamed the Japanese Desert in Egypt greater than 70 million years in the past. “However this speculation was not supported by any bodily discovery, till three Egyptian scientists introduced the primary bodily proof of dinosaur footprints within the Japanese Desert not too long ago,” the report acknowledged.
Mohammed Qarni, director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at Cairo College and one of many members of the analysis staff behind the invention, instructed Al-Monitor, “The invention of 16 footprints of dinosaurs on layers of the Nubian sandstone confirmed the presence of two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs and four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs.”
He stated, “The sizes of some dinosaurs have been estimated at between 500 to 900 kilograms,” or 1,100-1,984 kilos. “The peak of one of many carnivorous dinosaurs was estimated at 4 meters [13 feet] and the opposite 5 meters [16.5 feet].”
Dinosaurs belong to the vertebrate subphylum. Non-avian dinosaurs lived between roughly 245-65 million years in the past, in the course of the Mesozoic Period.
A report revealed by Deutsche Welle final yr famous, “Most research point out that every one forms of dinosaurs grew to become extinct about 65 million years in the past, and scientists have been unable to find out the precise explanation for their extinction. However the seemingly purpose is the collision of the earth with an asteroid.”
Qarni famous the invention will enable for the primary time the research and documentation of footprints of carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs within the Japanese Desert of Egypt. This discovery has financial and touristic significance and worth. “We’re within the means of contacting the official authorities, together with the Antiquities and Surroundings ministries, to show the world the place the invention was made right into a nature reserve and a vacationer attraction web site,” he stated
Qarni added, “In 2008, Rod Graham, professor at Imperial Faculty London, and Ahmed Niazi, professor on the Division of Geology at Cairo College, first found these footprints throughout a scientific journey. Since then, Niazi has defined these footprints to his college students on scientific area journeys as footprints of giant reptiles. On the time, the footprints weren’t absolutely studied.”
Qarni continued, “The joint analysis staff of Cairo College and New Valley College started conducting area research of those footprints in 2018. The staff revealed a research within the Geological Journal of Wiley Publishing Home in mid-December 2021,” earlier than discovering that they belonged to carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs.
Walid Kassab, assistant professor within the Division of Geology at Cairo College and a member of the analysis staff behind the invention, instructed Al-Monitor that the analysis staff made area visits to look at the footprints. “The staff in contrast these footprints with related shapes, reaching the conclusion that they belonged to herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs,” he stated.
He added, “This scientific discovery is exclusive. The footprints date again to the Late Cretaceous interval throughout which the presence of many creatures, reminiscent of reptiles and dinosaurs, was plentiful. Additionally, throughout this era, temperatures and sea ranges on earth have been very excessive.”
In the meantime, the director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Heart at New Valley College, Jbeili Abdel-Maqsoud, stated in a Feb. 2 statement that these latest discoveries of vertebrate fossils within the Egyptian desert report a brand new historical past of historic wildlife in Africa.
