New 240-million-year-old plant-eating species with beak and tusks found in Tanzania

An international team led by Hady George of the University of Bristol reports a new prehistoric species from Tanzania, dated to about 240 million years ago, in the early dinosaur era. The animal had a beak, tusks, and claws, and was plant-eating. The discovery adds to knowledge of early Triassic biodiversity but has no immediate market or geopolitical implications.