Unearthing a Puzzle in the Sands of Niger
When a Franco-American team first trekked across the baking dunes of the Ténéré Desert in 1976, they expected to find scattered Cretaceous bones—but not a creature that would rewrite the sauropod rulebook. Among the bleached vertebrae and weather-worn ribs lay delicate, almost paper-thin skull fragments belonging to Nigersaurus taqueti. Early field…