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An abelisaurus, a predatory dinosaur, rests while several pterosaurs fight over the remains of a carcass.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—Sahara desert in the modern era is an arid part of the earth. However, history records a different thing, where the desert holds the impression of horror in prehistoric times.
A review of 100-year-old fossil evidence reveals that 100 million years ago a part of the Sahara Desert was arguably the most dangerous place on the planet.
This is evidenced by the unmatched concentration of large predatory dinosaurs in comparable modern terrestrial ecosystems.
Fossil analysis of the so-called Kem Kem layer —a rock formation in southeastern Morocco, near the Algerian border, dating from the period Cretaceous— indicates the presence of large-scale carnivorous dinosaurs, flying predatory reptiles, in the area.
“There are predators like crocodiles, all living together in the same place at the same time, it’s a river ecosystem full of very large fish,” wrote Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman.
Giuliani-Hoffman wrote to CNN in his article entitled This was the most dangerous place in our planet’s history published on May 1, 2020.
“Creatures found at the Kem Kem archaeological site roamed Earth about 95 million years before early humans appeared on this planet,” he continued.
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Fossils from the Jurassic era in the Sahara.
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Nizar Ibrahim, a paleontologist, mentions to CNN that, “if you had a time machine and could travel to this place, you probably wouldn’t last long.”
The ancient ecosystem of Kem Kem is a truly mysterious place, ecologically, because usually in an ecosystem there will be more plant-eating animals (herbivores) than predators (carnivores).
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