The most dangerous place in Earth's history was once a paradise for the biggest and baddest dinosaurs like the Sabre-toothed Carcharodontosaurus
Folks, I have to admit that my curiosity would make me jump into the DeLorean and travel back in time to Eastern Morocco where the biggest and baddest dinosaurs, like the 25 feet long Deltadromeus (the Delta Runner) and the 26 foot long Sabre-tooth Carcharodontosaurus, roamed.
I’d be like, “Wooo, they a biggun!” And then I’d zip right back here to our time in 2020 AD! A second is more than enough time to get a quick glimpse of the real life Jurassic World that we see on HBO. Because hey, as Dr. Nizar Ibrahim, who is a professor of Biology at the University of Detroit-Mercy and a Visiting Researcher from the University of Portsmouth, said, “This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time traveler would not last very long.”
Everything, during that time, was humongous. The flowers, the birds, and the fish were all humongous. According to Dr. Nizar Ibrahim’s colleague, University of Portsmouth Professor David Martill, there was this “freshwater saw shark called Onchopristis” that had teeth so sharp and shiny that the teeth could cut through a bank’s vault door while blinding you at the same time.
And that down there what you see Chris Pratt doing, training those Raptors like they’re Shi Zhu puppies, wouldn’t’ve happen, cap’n.
Instead, you would’ve seen something like that down there, the dinosaur running down his dinner.
The type of dinosaurs that Mother Nature “cooked up in that lab” of hers were the type that ate their dinner raw. Those dinosaurs had a powerful immune system that could break down bacteria and viruses like they were paper plates. A dinosaur’s immune system would be like, “E.coli ain’t got nothing on me, son!” Survival of the fittest was the thing back then during the Cretaceous Time Period when the biggest and baddest dinosaurs roamed.
But like all the biggest and baddest things around, the 26 foot long Sabre-tooth Carcharodontosaurus and his dino buddies had to go.
All kinds of things happened that brought about their end. Y’all know, things like diseases, famine, and the climate changing. Therefore, not having the environment they’d become accustom to living in led to the biggest and baddest dinosaurs being fossilized and placed in the Kem Kem Group. The Kem Kem Group includes three of the biggest and baddest dinosaurs ever known, which include the 25 feet long Deltadromeus (the Delta Runner) and the 26 foot long Sabre-tooth Carcharodontosaurus.
The good news for us is that these bad boys were fossilized. And fossilization is, after all, why folks like Dr. Ibrahim and Dr. Martill can tell us about the dinos that existed during “the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth” where time travelers couldn’t stay any longer than a second.
If y’all will like to know more about the biggest and baddest dinosaurs that roamed the Sahara Desert, pick up a copy of ZooKeys Journal and then turn it to the page where the good professors’ article, “Geology and Paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morroco,” is located.
I’d be like, “Wooo, they a biggun!” And then I’d zip right back here to our time in 2020 AD! A second is more than enough time to get a quick glimpse of the real life Jurassic World that we see on HBO. Because hey, as Dr. Nizar Ibrahim, who is a professor of Biology at the University of Detroit-Mercy and a Visiting Researcher from the University of Portsmouth, said, “This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time traveler would not last very long.”
Everything, during that time, was humongous. The flowers, the birds, and the fish were all humongous. According to Dr. Nizar Ibrahim’s colleague, University of Portsmouth Professor David Martill, there was this “freshwater saw shark called Onchopristis” that had teeth so sharp and shiny that the teeth could cut through a bank’s vault door while blinding you at the same time.
And that down there what you see Chris Pratt doing, training those Raptors like they’re Shi Zhu puppies, wouldn’t’ve happen, cap’n.
Instead, you would’ve seen something like that down there, the dinosaur running down his dinner.
The type of dinosaurs that Mother Nature “cooked up in that lab” of hers were the type that ate their dinner raw. Those dinosaurs had a powerful immune system that could break down bacteria and viruses like they were paper plates. A dinosaur’s immune system would be like, “E.coli ain’t got nothing on me, son!” Survival of the fittest was the thing back then during the Cretaceous Time Period when the biggest and baddest dinosaurs roamed.
But like all the biggest and baddest things around, the 26 foot long Sabre-tooth Carcharodontosaurus and his dino buddies had to go.
All kinds of things happened that brought about their end. Y’all know, things like diseases, famine, and the climate changing. Therefore, not having the environment they’d become accustom to living in led to the biggest and baddest dinosaurs being fossilized and placed in the Kem Kem Group. The Kem Kem Group includes three of the biggest and baddest dinosaurs ever known, which include the 25 feet long Deltadromeus (the Delta Runner) and the 26 foot long Sabre-tooth Carcharodontosaurus.
The good news for us is that these bad boys were fossilized. And fossilization is, after all, why folks like Dr. Ibrahim and Dr. Martill can tell us about the dinos that existed during “the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth” where time travelers couldn’t stay any longer than a second.
If y’all will like to know more about the biggest and baddest dinosaurs that roamed the Sahara Desert, pick up a copy of ZooKeys Journal and then turn it to the page where the good professors’ article, “Geology and Paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morroco,” is located.
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