Professor Martill expressed full satisfaction with the discovery, remarking that paleontologists are living in a “golden age” of discovery. “This year alone we have discovered three new species and we are only into March,” he said. In the last few years, Morocco has been the site of several significant paleontological finds, including the discovery of flesh-eating dinosaur tracks in 2019.
In 2019, paleontologists also discovered the oldest ever stegosaur bones in Morocco. Non-dinosaur related discoveries include recent finds in March, when scientists discovered a 7,000-year-old human meal in a cave near Casablanca. The cave, called the Rhinoceros Grotto, was a living space for early humans and is now home to the earliest recorded evidence in Africa of on-site meat processing.
