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A long-necked dinosaur with jagged teeth and a long tail, roamed Zimbabwe 230 million years ago, according to palaeontologists.

After unearthing the skeletal remains in the country, scientists say that it is the oldest dinosaur remains to have been found in Africa yet.

The near-complete skeleton of the Mbiresaurus raathi, from the sauropodomorph species, is now stored in a room in a museum, in Zimbabwe's southern city of Bulawayo.

Dr Christopher Griffin is a vertebrate palaeontologist at Yale University, who made the discovery.

He claims he found the dinosaur鈥檚 femur sticking out of the ground, dug around it and then discovered a hip bone.

He told Newsday about his discovery, saying "This is the earliest definitive dinosaur that's ever been found".

Photo credit: Andrey Atuchin / Virginia Tech