New study : Morocco, home to the first warm-blooded mammals 270 to 222 million years ago

Warm-blooded animals that managed to survive mass extinction events lived in Morocco 222 million years ago. A study released yesterday suggests that a number of fossils found previously in the Kingdom belong to the first kind of mammals that were able to maintain body heat.

Chenanisaurus Barbaricus : the last dinosaur to have lived in Africa discovered in Morocco

Chenanisaurus Barbaricus is one of the latest dinosaurs that lived in Morocco 66 million years ago. A partial jaw belonging to the predator animal was discovered by Doctor Nick Longrich last year in Ouled Abdoun Basin, a discovery that he described as similar to «winning the lottery».