Morocco's Atlas giant exhibited in Paris

The event awaited by the scientific community as well as the large public opens in the presence of Princess Lalla Hasna, King Mohammed VI's sister, in Paris on wednesday at the Natural History Museum with the exhibition of the "Atlas Giant" (Atlasaurus Imelakel).

The mid-jurassic 165 million year-old dinosaurs discovered in the late 70s in the Azilal region is one of the oldest and largest saurian ever unearthed.

After a year-long of digging, a group of Moroccan and foreign scientists unearthed five tons of fossils that were treated for five years in Rabat to restore the skeleton of the colossus which weighed alive 22,5 tons and was 18 meters wide.