Researchers said that 100 million years ago, Africa's Sahara was the "most dangerous place" in the history of Earth, where "a human time- traveller wouldn't last very long". Reviewing fossils from south-eastern Morocco, they found three of the largest known predatory dinosaurs roamed the area. Among them was the 26-foot- tall sabre-toothed Carcharodontosaurus, which had 8-inch-long serrated teeth.
A new species of orange and black bat from the Nimba Mountains in West Africa has been discovered by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History and Bat Conservation International. The species has been named Myotis nimbaensis in recognition of the Guinea mountain range it inhabits. "It has this bright-orange fur.it was so distinct," said scientist Winifred Frick. Continue...

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