Study leader Belal Salem of Ohio University and the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (IMAGE)

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Study leader Belal Salem of Ohio University and the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center

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Study leader Belal Salem of Ohio University and the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP) examines the roughly 98-million-year-old abelisaurid theropod neck vertebra discovered from the Bahariya Oasis that forms the basis of the new study.

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Photo by Hesham Sallam, American University in Cairo/MUVP.

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