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Saharian Dinosaurs made in Tunis Science City

25 May 2009

The Tunis Science City will soon organize a new exhibition entitled the Saharian Dinosaurs. Entirely designed by Tunisian experts, the latter will embark visitors on a trip during the Mesozoic era, back to 160 million years, to discover the different species of dinosaurs having lived in the African Sahara. It is worth outlining that in Africa it was only in 1905 that the first dinosaurs' fossils were discovered in the Sahara region. Since, the African Sahara has progressively become a highly important place for dinosaurs' excavation. As far as Tunisia is concerned, it is in Tataouine, located in the East-South, that a dinosaur fossil deposit was discovered for the first time in 1951, having enabled paleontologists to identify new types of dinosaurs such as Carcaradontosaurus, Spinosaurus, Iguanodon, etc. by conceiving and producing locally, using Tunisian know-how and competence, an exhibition entirely and squarely dedicated to Saharian dinosaurs, the Tunis Science City will enable its public to learn more about this type of dinosaurs' anatomy, their wildlife, their food, and the way they reproduce, etc.