I love to hike the Drakensberg or "dragon mountains" for the obvious reasons that can be seen in the pictures below.
Aside from its pristine beauty and majestic splendor it is also place with rich diversity in geology.
No wonder those who named these mountains thought dragons would live there.
Well, recently a new and scientifically significant "dragon" was discovered there.
We all know Tyrannosaurus rex or T-rex but he is rather young geologically and was surrounded by other giants.
Now a much older giant carnivore has been discovered in the drakensberg rocks that is about 128 million years older than T-rex. At this time in this part of the world the dinos were only around 3 to 5m in length.
This new guy is estimated to have been 8 to 9 meters (or 26 feet). There is only one other report of such a large carnivorous dinosaur present at the same time and that is a world away from Poland.
We don't have any body fossils yet just a set of very large footprints, so now the hunt is on to find some bones.
Thats crazy! The only other dinosaur that I have even heard of being in Southern Africa is the Lesothosaurus. I remember doing a junior school project on it in grade 3.
You can check out more info about it here -
http://dinosaurpictures.org/Lesothosaurus-pictures
Wow, that is an exciting new find. And those mountains are spectacular!
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