Found, Dinosaurs First of Saudi Arabia

Paleontologist had found the first dinosaur fossil from Saudi Arabia .

The findings are published in the current issue of the journal PLoS ONE on behalf of researchers from Uppsala University , Museum Victoria , Monash University , and the Saudi Geological Survey .

Fossils found when paleontologists conducting excavations in the territory of Saudi Arabia adjacent to the Red Sea . The fossils were a part of the spine and teeth .

" Fossils of dinosaurs are very rare in the Arabian Peninsula with only very fragmented bones were found , " says Benjamin Kear of Uppsala University in Sweden .

" These findings are important not only because it is where we find it, but because we are also able to identify it , " he explained .

" Also , this is the first dinosaur that are taxonomically known from the Arabian Peninsula , " said Kear in a release on the website of Uppsala University , Tuesday ( 01/07/2014 ) .

Tom Rich of Museum Victoria in Australia revealed , including rare dinosaur in Arabic because of the sedimentation of rocks in the past .

" Sedimentary rocks are deposited in stream and river during the time of the dinosaurs is rare , especially in Saudi Arabia , " he said . In the past , Arab land lies under the sea .

The bones and teeth were found in excavations this time 72 million years old . Identify reveal two types of dinosaurs .

The first is a carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs still associated with Tyranosaurus , had a body length of 6 meters . The second is that the plant-eating titanosaurs may have a body length of 20 meters .

Dinosaurs were not a new species , but only first discovered in Saudi Arabia . The same dinosaur found in Madagascar , South America , and northern Africa .