An international team of paleontologists says that 100 million years ago, ferocious predators such as flying reptiles and crocodile-hunters made the Sahara no place for the faint-hearted.
The research is published in the journal ZooKeys. Experts based the study on 100 years of fossil vertebrate discoveries in an area of rock formations in southeastern Morocco, known as the Kem Kem Group.
NEW SPECIES OF MEAT-EATING DINOSAUR DISCOVERED IN UTAH
"This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time-traveller would not last very long," said lead author Dr. Nizar Ibrahim, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Detroit Mercy and visiting researcher from the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth, in a statement.
