New dinoSaur found in univerSity cloSet

CAPE TOWN: Palaeontologists in South Africa found a 200million-year-old dinosaur in a university storeroom. According to the Guardian, the specimen was collected in the late 1930s, and was assumed to represent the remains of the Aardonyx. Forgotten for decades amid the largest fossil collection in the country at Wits University in Johannesburg, the dinosaur was correctly identified by palaeontologists Dr Alejandro Otero and Emil Krupandan who visited the university to look at early sauropodomorphs and they saw the bones did not match. The scientists observed that the specimen’s ankle bones were shaped like a cross, and they named it the Sefanosaurus, which mean “cross” in the Sesotho language, indigenous to the area where the dino was dug up.