New dinosaur discovered in Zimbabwe reveals diversity of region

The late Triassic was when dinosaurs were beginning to spread around the planet before they became the dominant animals on Earth during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

While sites in Europe and North America have been studied extensively, fossils from Africa have not had as much attention.

At the time Africa would have been part of a supercontinent called Gondwana, that also included present-day South America, India, Australia, and Antarctica.

Musango was a sauropodomorph, an early relative of dinosaurs such as Diplodocus that walked on two legs rather than four.

A study of the fossils of the Musango, which include bones from the spine, arms and feet, reveal a dinosaur which was almost fully grown when it died.