Palaeontology
Burrows criss-crossed pre-dinosaur world
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T.K. RandallSeptember 20, 2011 ·
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Image Credit: Gerhard Boeggemann
Subterranean animals dug vast networks of warrens long before the dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Evidence unearthed in Morocco suggests the prehistoric underground was the scene of the world's second oldest known communal burrows some 240 million years ago. "You should imagine the tracemaker as a stout, short-bodied, four-legged animal with a short tail and short neck," said author Sebastian Voigt.
While life on Earth 240 million years ago flourished in the seas and on land, the underground worlds discovered in Morocco are the oldest example of such communal subterranean structures from a low-latitude area.
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