Curious places in Morocco
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The original Spinosaurus fossils were discovered in 1915 and obliterated by Allied bombs hitting Munich in 1944, turning the largest carnivorous dinosaur into a ghost for decades. When new fossils emerged from Morocco in 2014, they revealed a creature so bizarre that paleontologists have been in open warfare ever since about whether it was a 15-meter wading heron from hell or an otter-croc hybrid that chased fish underwater using a paddle-shaped tail unlike any other theropod.
A cave in Morocco where fossils pushed back the origin of Homo sapiens by 100,000 years. The 315,000-year-old bones show that our species is far older than the 200,000 years scientists had previously believed.
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