Unearthing Musankwa: International team finds new link in dinosaur evolution

Around 210 million years ago, a Musankwa sanyatiensis, a bipedal dinosaur with a long neck and sweeping tail, took its last steps in an unusually swampy region of southern Pangea. In the summer of 2018, scientists from Zimbabwe, South Africa, the UK, and the USA discovered its fossils on Spurwing Island in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Among them were Paul Barrett from the Natural History Museum in London and Jonah Choiniere from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.