Jobar is a monster from folklore of the Tuareg of Niger. It was described as a giant beast like a camel, and was as a boogeyman that would eat naughty children and those that strayed from the camp.
The dinosaur Jobaria was named after JobarPaul C. Sereno et al. ,Cretaceous Sauropods from the Sahara and the Uneven Rate of Skeletal Evolution Among Dinosaurs.Science286,1342-1347(1999).DOI:10.1126/science.286.5443.1342, as the bones of Jobaria eroding out of rocks were identified as belonging to Jobar.Helm, C. W., Benoit, J., Mayor, A., Cawthra, H. C., Penn-Clarke, C. R., & Rust, R. (2019). Interest in geological and palaeontological curiosities by Southern African non-western societies: A review and perspectives for future study. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 130(5), 541–558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.01.001 The rocks showed evidence of a flood, hence why there is a story of Jobars dying in a flood and a palaeontological theory Jobaria died in a flood.
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