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NME’s weekly science dose (July 19-25)

Paleobiologist digging in Tunisia in 2011 have found the most complete dinosaur skeleton from Africa yet, belonging to a family of sauropods. The new species, Tataouinea hannibalis, probably had hollowed bones and probably large air sacs in its abdomen, morphological traits that are similar to birds and suggesting they may have a bird-like respiratory system. These dinosaurs were not small, however, with the remains suggesting they stood at about 14m in length when they were alive some 136 million years ago.   

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