--- title: Scientists Discover New Dinosaur description: Scientists have announced the discovery of a new dinosaur, which they've named Sefapanosaurus. canonical: https://time.com/3938934/new-dinosaur/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-27T13:19:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:45.454Z article:section: Science og:title: Meet the New Dinosaur That Scientists Just Discovered og:description: The bones were hidden in plain sight og:url: https://time.com/3938934/new-dinosaur/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19d122c71ca9a60f/698858c2a988ca19e46b33d5/sefapanosaurus.jpg?branch=production&width=437&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 437 og:image:height: 246 og:image:alt: sefapanosaurus og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the New Dinosaur That Scientists Just Discovered twitter:description: The bones were hidden in plain sight twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19d122c71ca9a60f/698858c2a988ca19e46b33d5/sefapanosaurus.jpg?branch=production&width=437&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Meet the New Dinosaur That Scientists Just Discovered > Sponsored content. 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NASA's Deep Space Network has been receiving images and sounds from space probes for 50 years._ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 27, 2015 1:19 PM UTC  University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 27, 2015 1:19 PM UTC Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur that they’ve named _Sefapanosaurus_. On Wednesday, researchers announced that palaeontologists discovered a new 200 million-year-old dinosaur from South Africa. The catch? The bones had actually been found in the 1930s and were hiding in plain sight in the large fossil collection at the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at Wits University. Researchers had previously thought the remains were from a dinosaur called _Aardonyx_, but upon further study, they learned it was actually an entirely different dinosaur. This new dinosaur is believed to be a medium-sized sauropodomorph, which is a group that gave rise to the familiar long-necked dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era, the researchers say.The researchers [published](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12247/abstract) their findings in the _Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society_. “Sefapanosaurus constitutes a member of the growing list of transitional sauropodomorph dinosaurs from Argentina and South Africa that are increasingly telling us about how they diversified,” study author and Argentinian palaeontologist Alejandro Otero [said in a statement](http://www.wits.ac.za/files/4m9h8%5F812021001435141734.pdf). ## Transcript >> Human beings have been sending spacecraft into the cosmos for more than half a century now and all of the sights and sounds and data have to come back someway. -[ unk ] >> Even in the vacuum of space, sound is not absent, but it's electromagnetic sound, the hiss and the crackle and the strangely musical flow that can be heard as data strikes the antenna and is translated into sound waves. 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