The new abelisaurs discovered in a Morocco marine bed lived until the end of the Cretaceous era.
may have been one of the dinosaurs already in decline. According to Longrich, that only shows a small picture of one part of the world, so it is difficult to generalize how dinosaurs living on the other side of the planet were doing. Towards the end of the dinosaurs reign,and dinosaurs living at higher latitudes may have become less divergent as a result.
At least in Morocco, dinosaur species seem to have remained successful and diverse up until the very end. reigned as a megapredator in North America, abelisaurs sat at the top of the food chains in North Africa,” Nour-Eddine Jalil, a co-author of the study professor at the Natural History Museum and a researcher at Universite Cadi Ayyad in Morocco,
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