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It is the oldest known fossil of the species found in northeastern Africa.
A fossil from a a carnivorous dinosaur that lived about 98 million years ago

was unearthed by an Egyptian-led team of researchers in the country's Western desert.

The well-preserved neck vertebra, discovered during a 2016 expedition to Bahariya Oasis in the vast desert, belongs to an Abelisaurid theropod, a species that lived during the Cretaceous period (about 145 to 66 million years ago), according to researchers.

The species were more common in parts of Europe and modern Southern Hemisphere continents, such as Africa and South America, in addition to the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar.