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TIL In 2018, a research team from Mansoura University in Egypt discovered "Mansourasaurus shahinae", Egypt’s first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in decades. it was Found in the Western Desert near Dakhla Oasis, dating back 80 million years, it was published in journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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